Eyo, an illiterate 10-year-old girl is trafficked to the UK with promises of a better life. The novel follows her five year journey as a domestic servant and eventual sex slave in the UK, her attempts to escape and her journey around the UK as she's passed from one human trafficker to another. Eventually, she is rescued only to realise that in even in freedom, society demands an exacting price from those it should protect.
“Outstanding commentary on the conditions that make life in home countries unbearable, the casual cruelness meted out on strangers as they travel, and the indifference that sustains it all” – Judging panel, Commonwealth Writers' Prize
