Tickets: £22 - includes signed copy of the book
Programme:
6:30 pm - Doors open
7:00 pm - Talk starts
7:45 pm - Q&A
8:00 pm - Networking drinks
About The Event
Exclusive signing with author Lucia Osborne-Crowley (The Lasting Harm)
Join Aphra and The Hearth for an intimate event with acclaimed author Lucia Osborne-Crowley. Discover the process and stories behind this bestselling book The Lasting Harm: Witnessing The Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. Molly Masters of Aphra will be in conversation with Lucia about her research and writing process, and how we create a safe space for women's stories, and find justice.
About the book:
In November 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex trafficking of minors, and now faces 55 years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of four girls. The trial was meticulously covered by journalist and legal reporter Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of only four reporters allowed into the courtroom daily.
The Lasting Harm is her account of that trial, a gripping true crime drama and a blistering critique of a criminal justice system ill-equipped to deliver justice for abuse survivors, no matter the outcome.
Centring the stories of four women and their testimonies and supplemented by extra material to which Osborne-Crowley has exclusive access, The Lasting Harm brings this incendiary trial to life, questions our age-old appetite for crime and punishment and offers a new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice.
'I understand – and sympathise with – the feeling you might have that you already know the Jeffrey Epstein story. But I am not here to tell you a story about Jeffrey Epstein, or even Ghislaine Maxwell. I am here to tell you the stories of ten women, many of whom have never spoken at length before, about the real impact of sexual trauma on their lives.'
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Author
Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a British–Australian writer, living in London. She has written two books about how trauma affects the body.
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