I am pleased to present the first French-language book devoted to the Grooming Gangs scandal, for which I had the honor of creating the cover artwork.
Frederika Abbate — ROSE IN HORRORLAND. A Young English Woman in the Hell of the Grooming Gangs. Fictional testimony — 108 pages — Éditions de la Reine Rouge, May 2026.
Information and orders: https://www.amazon.fr/Rose-pays-lhorreur-Anglaise-Grooming/dp/2488823031
Rose Olroyd is an ordinary working-class English teenager from Rotherham, a medium-sized town in Yorkshire, in the northeast of England. Her father is unemployed and her mother works day and night for a textile company. Between a sick younger brother and overwhelmed parents, trapped in a daily life marked by hardship and social misery, Rose spends her evenings wandering the neighborhood with her friends and dreams of becoming an astronomer. But opportunities are scarce in this devastated and deindustrialized region. One evening, she meets Nabeel, a Pakistani taxi driver who grows fond of her. For the first time, someone seems to take an interest in her. He introduces her to his circle and invites her into the family restaurant that serves as his refuge. It is in this ordinary establishment that the gates of hell will open for Rose.
Told from the perspective of a victim, this book recounts the Grooming Gangs scandal, undoubtedly the largest mass sexual crime in the history of the Western world, long concealed from public view. Between the late 1980s and the mid-2010s, thousands of working-class white girls were abducted, held captive, and sexually abused by gangs composed for the most part of members of the Pakistani community.
The affair was covered up by the British authorities for decades, until 2025, when the truth finally came to light.
Readers will also discover the deeper causes behind the unbelievable concealment of the horror of the Grooming Gangs by both the media and the political class, and how so many innocent girls were sacrificed in order to preserve the utopia of a multicultural society.
