ANY GIRL
"A blazing call to arms" - Irish Independent
"Doring has done something uncommon, something rare: laid her humanity totally bare to save others from her fate" - Irish Daily Mail
"Doring stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others" - Sunday Times
"An impressive and dizzying feat of writing" - Irish Times
Buy Any Girl:
ANY GIRL: A MEMOIR OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND RECOVERY
Hachette, 17 February 2022
How does a young woman find herself involved in prostitution in Ireland? In an era that asks us to take a 'sex-positive' view of it, how does this translate in reality? And why aren't we talking about it more?
Any Girl is one woman's first-hand account of Ireland's sex trade.
An experience of sexual exploitation as a teenager carved a direct path for Mia into the world of prostitution, a hidden part of her life during her college years in Dublin. There, in a system of casual entitlement, she met with abuse, violence and degradation, finally leaving it behind at age 24.
Over a decade on, now a psychotherapist specialising in sexual trauma, Mia shares her remarkable story with passion and a determination to challenge dominant perceptions of prostitution today. Any Girl amounts to a radical act of truthtelling that shines with courage and hope.
ANY GIRL: A MEMOIR OF SURVIVING PROSTITUTION IN IRELAND
March 2023
A powerful and important book' - Ivana Bacik, T.D.
'Will open your eyes and your heart to a hidden world that most choose to ignore' Jarlath Regan
'Searing and generous ... a blazing beacon' - Donal Ryan
'Every man and woman should read this' - Sabina Higgins
'Written with honesty, power and insight' - Róisín Ingle
'Intensely brave, honest, tender and enlightening, this memoir is thought-provoking and timely' - Sue Leonard
'A searing, beautiful memoir of trauma and survival - Doring writes the unspoken truth to all men and women' - Tom Clonan
'An extremely courageous memoir; an unveiling of rare tenderness, introspection, self and truth' - Rachel Moran
'A devastating and beautiful book' - Louise Perry
INTERVIEWS
Irish Times Interview with Roisin Ingle
Interview with Ryan Tubridy on RTE Radio1
Interview with Sue Leonard in The Examiner
Interview with Matt Cooper on Today FM
Irishman Abroad with Jarlath Regan: Surviving the Unsurvivable
Take 2 with Deb Shaw: The Truth about Prostitution
The Limits of Consent: Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry
Dr. Cassidy's Casebook, Episode 3, RTE Player