'I was a girl once, but not any more.' So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the terrors of the forest; and a descent into the bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. An unforgettable story of one victim's astonishing survival.