Ann Cusack appears on this byline as a contributor, and the word is worth respecting. Books of this kind are usually a collaboration between the person whose experience sits at the centre and the writer who helps shape it into something a reader can follow, and the credit reflects that shared work.
Groomed by a Gang is filed on our memoir shelf alongside personal development, a pairing that signals testimony written to be useful as well as read. Accounts of exploitation ask a great deal of everyone involved, and the measure of them is whether the telling stays under the survivor’s control rather than becoming spectacle. That is the standard this kind of writing has to meet.