The truth IS awful. But we must learn to live with it if we are to leave the 1970s, and all the rest of history, behind for good. So what's the truth? Maybe it's something like this: Ordinary men are capable of extraordinary violence. Women and girls are neither virgins nor whores. None of it is funny. 
 This is a powerful and deeply affecting book, tackling gender violence and shame by telling the entwined stories of the author's experience of abuse alongside the police investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper's crimes. The artwork is stunning and haunting. The issues Una raises are so important and this book made me by turns sad and angry. I hope this book is widely read, and it helps raise awareness in the struggle against violence, misogyny and how we can unthinkingly be so complicit in it.