Not the Perfect Victim

<p><strong>He stole my voice. This is what it took to get it back.</strong></p><p></p><p>A fierce honest memoir of trauma autism and finding the strength to speak.</p><p>At nineteen <strong>one night changed everything for Anna Kahill</strong>. A violent trauma shattered her sense of safety and left her carrying the truth alone for more than a decade. Grief motherhood and a late diagnosis of autism and PTSD finally forced the memories she had buried to the surface.</p><p></p><p><strong>Not the Perfect Victim</strong> is Anna's unflinching account of survival and the fight for justice inside a system that legal professionals advocacy groups and survivors often describe as <em>notoriously difficult to navigate</em> in sexual violence cases. With clarity and courage she exposes the impossible expectations placed on traumatised and neurodivergent women - and the silence demanded of anyone who doesn't fit the perfect victim mould.</p><p>Raw compassionate and deeply human this memoir speaks to anyone who has questioned their memory their worth or their right to be heard.</p><p></p><p><strong>For readers of:</strong></p><p><em>Know My Name</em> - Chanel Miller</p><p><em>What My Bones Know</em> - Stephanie Foo</p><p><em>The Body Keeps the Score</em> - Bessel van der Kolk</p><p></p><p>Anna Kahill's story has been featured in <strong>The Belfast Telegraph Books Ireland Women Writers Writing.ie Armagh I</strong> and <strong>The Newry Democrat</strong>.</p><p><strong>A memoir that refuses silence - and shows what it really takes to reclaim your life.</strong></p>