Modern Slave, the shocking true crime story of survival and resilience in the face of child criminal exploitation and sexual abuse, by Gaia Cooper with Veronica Clark, is the #5 Bestseller in Amazon’s ‘Self-Help for Abuse’ category.

The boost in sales is in no doubt related to recent publicity generated by Cooper’s appearance on The Telegraph‘s The Daily T podcast, in which she critiques the inauthenticity of Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson’s “concerns” surrounding the grooming gangs, and calls for Keir Starmer to lead a national inquiry.

Forget those trying to co-opt the narratives of Gaia and the other victims: read Gaia’s own words for yourself.

Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back.

Aged just 14 years old, Gaia Cooper was groomed, raped and held captive by a group of paedophiles. Before long, she was exploited and forced to take part in organised credit card fraud. Once she was in their grasp, Gaia found it impossible to escape this new adult world – a carousel of abuse, crime and drugs.

For more than four years, Gaia endured the horrific abuse before she was finally able to fight back, not only against the men who had stolen her childhood, but the authorities that had fed her directly into their hands.

Modern Slave is out now. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.