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    Jun 01, 2021 3 minutes

    THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LYDIA HARVEY

    A TRUE STORY OF SEX, CRIME AND THE MEANING OF JUSTICE

    Julia Laite Profile, 432 pages, £16.99

    The true story of Lydia Harvey is certainly worth telling. Julia Laite plunges the reader into a sordid world of sexual exploitation as she meticulously follows the path of one young woman from New Zealand who was forced to pick men up on the streets, have sex with them, then hand over her earnings to pimps. Such tales of

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