WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER OF THE DAVITT AWARD SHORTLISTED
FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOUGLAS STEWART PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE
VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALKLEY BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE NIB LITERARY AWARD 'THE BEST BOOK ON
EPSTEIN' OBSERVER 'I understand - and sympathise with - the feeling you might have that you
already know the Jeffrey Epstein story. But I am not here to tell you a story about Jeffrey
Epstein or even Ghislaine Maxwell. I am here to tell you the stories of ten women many of
whom have never spoken at length before about the real impact of sexual trauma on their lives'
In November 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five counts of sex-trafficking of minors
and now faces twenty years in prison for the role she played in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of four
girls. The trial was meticulously covered by journalist and legal reporter Lucia
Osborne-Crowley one of the only reporters allowed into the courtroom every day. The Lasting
Harm is her account of that trial a gripping true crime drama and a blistering critique of a
criminal justice system ill-equipped to deliver justice for abuse survivors no matter the
outcome. Giving voice to four women and their testimonies and supplemented by exclusive
interviews The Lasting Harm brings this incendiary trial to life questions our age-old
appetite for crime and punishment and offers a new blueprint for meaningful reparative justice.
