I Never Gave My Consent

"I Never Gave My Consent: A Schoolgirl's Life Inside the Telford Sex Ring" is Holly Archer's first-person account of the grooming and sexual exploitation she survived as a teenager in Telford, England, beginning at age fourteen. She describes years of abuse and coercion by an organised group of men, an escape to Birmingham, and her decision, years later, to cooperate with the police investigation that led to seven convictions in 2013 — while ultimately choosing not to testify in court herself.

Published by Simon & Schuster UK in 2016, the book follows Archer's path toward rebuilding her life after abuse, including the birth of her daughter and her later work with a rape-prevention charity. It is written as a survivor's testimony rather than a courtroom or investigative account, and is often placed alongside misery-memoir and survivor-memoir titles such as those by Cathy Glass.