A brief history:

Barbara Biggs worked as a journalist for a decade before resigning to write about her extraordinary early life. The resulting story was called "In Moral Danger":

At 14 her grandmother sold her to a paedophile barrister.
At 16 she was in a psychiatric hospital.
At 18 she escaped Cambodia as it fell to the Khmer Rouge.
At 19 she was a prostitute in Japan.
At 21 she received death threats and caused national headlines.

Her story continued with "The Road Home" :

At 23 she becomes a mother.
At 27 a classical pianist.
At 30 a journalist.
At 40 she becomes a property millionaire and finally confronts the man who almost destroyed her.
And wins.

Her third book is "The Accidental Renovator" , which tells the story of how she bought and renovated an apartment in Paris and the excentric people she met there.

She donated up to two-thirds of her royalties of her fourth book, "ChatRoom" , to a child protection charity.

Barbara now campaigns to raise awareness and stop child sexual abuse and campaigns to spread a successful treatment model for perpetrators and their families.

For more information about Barbara Biggs visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barbbiggs