THE LASTING HARM: Lucia Osborne-Crawley

The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

by Lucia Osborne-Crawley

As someone easily engrossed by the courtroom observations of Helen Garner, I found this book by British-Australian journo Lucia Osborne-Crowley similarly compulsive and unsettling. Here the crim is a notorious if unusual one, Ghislaine Maxwell, the long-term girlfriend of the late Jeffrey Epstein. But looking beyond the lives of the rich and famous, Osborne dissects the justice system and centres the voices of the survivors.​

- Reviewed by Suzy