Slave Girls: The Shrinking Girl : Hanna

Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines - the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today. This is the second installment in the brand new series.�Hanna - The Shrinking Girl - has always struggled to fit in. The eldest of five kids, her homelife is�complicated and poor, and her single mum, Eva, can barely keep their heads�above water. Bullied at school for her obvious signs of poverty, she is happy and relieved when�a cool girl makes a move to be her new friend. But this friendship carries a terrible�cost. She is thrown into a dark world of drugs, gangs, sex and a controlling�`boyfriend'.�Repeatedly raped and addicted to drugs herself, a desperate Hanna�starts to self-harm and develops an eating disorder. Totally controlled by a gang that uses her as a commodity, is there any way she�can be pulled from their grip and reunited with her family?