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Top Girl

By: Danielle Marin
Narrated by: Nikki Patel
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Summary

Gritty...shocking...true.

Top Girl is the tell-all true story of a grammar school girl turned county lines drug dealer.

Danielle has a safe, happy childhood growing up in West London, but her bright future fades as she turns her back on school for gang life and crime.

Betrayed by the police after a brutal gang rape, she finds protection under the wing of organised criminals and falls in love with the local ‘top boy’.

However, her allegiances bring terror to her doorstep when gun-toting rivals target her flat - and the authorities answer by taking away her baby.

Heartbroken, Danielle spirals deeper into gang life and becomes a key player in a sprawling county lines operation, running drugs to satellite towns all over the UK from the gang’s London HQ.

The Harrods shopping sprees, designer handbags and hedonistic lifestyle are the envy of her friends, but the good times and cash mask the grim realities of her life.

A turning point comes when Danielle is arrested and - with the help of a probation officer - she begins to question whether she really is ‘top girl’ after all. But after five years deep in the high-earning street hustle, can she really leave it all behind?

Danielle’s gritty, emotional, no-holds-barred memoir lays bare the reality of a county lines insider and reveals the truth about life on the frontline of Britain’s biggest drug threat for a generation.

©2022 Danielle Marin (P)2022 Boldwood Books

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Really enjoyed this.

Loved this book. It was an easy listen with a powerful story beautifully written. Once I got used to everything being 'hella' good haha would definitely recommend.

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Honest

An honest and frank account of the reality of County Lines. This should be make in to a series, young people need to also read this.

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Highly recommended

A great listen to say the least. It gave an insight into a world many of us would have very little idea about otherwise.
Well presented and very well written.
A must read for anyone interested in crime or law enforcement

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Poignant story

This isn’t a story for the faint hearted. Hard to hear at times but I am glad that the author has managed to turn her life around.

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Entertaining

The storylije holdss your attention throughout. I found the narration distracting at first as I could tell the narrator wasn't a London native - but I got used to it as the story progressed.

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eye-opening

interesting to hear the other side of the story without glorifying what is a damaging and distractive business.

it's Daniel Bedingfeild by the way

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it's weird hearing it from a girls prospective

A difficult and triggering listen seeing I shared some of this ladies life experience, I would love to grab a coffee wid her, what's interesting regardless of being male or female, we both experienced the same emotions after the fact. I imagine I'm some what older than her so have had to find different coping mechanisms, but the damage is the same I'm sure..... I wonder did she marry and have more kids I recon not... dose she get triggered when she hears drill music I recon she dose .... did she reconnect with her mother...nah no yet but with Therapy they will facilitate that ...she's lucky she got complex PTSD .... I got Anti social personality disorder with medium to high psychopathy clusters 1 & 2 ..... But being a Buddhist I'm more pro social than anti social. nether the less an insightful book which reinforces my notion that I have held for a long time ... which is ... if a trained man gos off to war and witnesses the darkest forms of destruction man can inflict on human beings, and then said man returns to society with a diagnosis of PTST, then it beggers the question what of those young minds who who witness lesser forms of destruction but destruction never the less, who then in turn hide these things they have witnessed as they are criminal acts told never to speak of them again ...these are the secret boys and girls who take their respective places in society with a plastic smile and a fucked up sleep disorder....lololol.... it's like I've always said bouncing through children's home foster care etc ..... the only things consistent in my life at that time was "Pain and EastEnders" @urbanbuddhauk

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Brilliant and in-depth story.

Great story great narration I hope you have a great life including your son.

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Really well told story

Really enjoyed the narration and how the story develops. I listen constantly while doing artwork. Kept me interested in the characters through out.

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Top Girl

Great story! Don’t think the voice suited the story but got used to it. T

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