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Olivia Smit Author

Childhood best friends, Anna Hendricks and Olivia Smit were forced into prostitution at the age of 16, eventually working for 5 and 7 years respectively in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Having endured years of unspeakable horrors and abuse, the two women eventually found the strength, through their friendship, to escape and begin to rebuild their lives.

Tim Tate is a best-selling author, investigative journalist and multiple award-winning documentary film-maker. He has published 16 works of non-fiction, including the internationally best-selling Slave Girl (John Blake, 2009), which told the story of a young British woman sex-trafficked to Holland's prostitution industry.