Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Osborne-Crowley was born in London and raised in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia.

[2] In 2023, she was accepted into the PhD creative writing program at the University of East Anglia.

[3] Osborne-Crowley works as a journalist, legal affairs correspondent, and writer.

The book is a short memoir "in which she recounts her experience of suffering a violent rape as a teenager, leading to years of chronic illness, anxiety and an eating disorder.

[6] It was subsequently shortlisted for the 2025 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction[7] and longlisted for the Walkley Book Award.