Not the Perfect Victim: A Memoir of Surviving Sexual Violence, a Late Autism Diagnosis, and the Fight for Justice

¿ Longlisted for the CAP Awards 2026

He stole my voice. This is what it took to get it back.

Narrated by the author. Told in her own voice. First published in 2025.

In 2006, one night changed everything.

At nineteen, a violent trauma shattered Anna Kahill's sense of safety and left her carrying the truth alone for more than a decade. Grief and motherhood shaped the years that followed, as the memories she had buried gradually resurfaced. A later diagnosis of autism and PTSD reframed what she ha...