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Top Girl
- Narrated by: Nikki Patel
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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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.
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- Sigrin
- 16-08-22
A girl called Danielle.
Very quickly in this book, you pick up that Danielle has mental health issues and maybe a personality disorder going on.
I am no Psychiatrist but there are narcissistic and OCD elements at work amongst other issues.
I admire the courage of Danielle’s words and her honesty in the account of her life, however Danielles lack of a moral compass is very evident in all she does.
There was a brief flicker after the birth of her son Lloyd, but unfortunately it disappeared as soon as it started.
I have tried to look for Danielle’s “raison d’être”, however here seemed to be nothing, apart from her kudos within the gang.
Her numerous reflection of herself are enlightening, , especially when she said “ Tattoos are a form of self harm” which I am sure for herself, and many others, they are.
I tried hard to empathizes with Danielle, but I just became frustrated with her manner towards anyone who was not in her immediate circle.
The letter to her son at the end is very sad, and poignant, However for her to say she did not see this coming is an absurd and narcissistic view.
The street lingo throughout the book ( a bit like Ali G on steroids) does get rather tedious at times, and leaves you feeling a bit grubby.
The narrators voice was too middle class. It really needed a narrator with a London accent
Personally, the jury is out for me.
Is it a brutally honest account of the life of a girl/woman in a London drug gang?
Or a self centered egotistic life gone astray and pulled back by a long needed dose of humility?
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- sophie
- 12-03-22
Stunning and shocking
This is one of the most very opening and stunning books I have ever read.
It is brutal in a number of places but so real and such an insight into how a teenage girl becomes a key part of a county lines drug dealing gang.
At times my heart broke for Danielle, at times she frustrated me but I empathised with her throughout.
Please read this book as it is a real one-off. I couldn’t put it down.
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- Red
- 30-01-23
Predictable
We’ve all read these books and seen those movies. I couldn’t warm to the girl at all
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- culrossblue
- 11-04-22
Fantasy listen
Great insight into gang life and a well told story.
Huge respect to the lassie.
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- Mayca Estevez
- 31-12-22
NO REGRETS!!
I am amazed at the fact that not once the author expresses a single regret for having trafficked with dungs for so many years. Her attitude is pretty much if I don’t sell drugs to people, someone else will. Well, I put this question to her. How would you feel if your son got addicted because like it often happens, drug dealers get children hooked from an early age? Would you then have that cavalier attitude to the person that sold him drugs? I think not.
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- BiancaJ
- 05-04-22
Scarily accurate
Quite harrowing at times but refreshing in a weird way that no details were left out. Allowing us as readers to really understand the life that was led by Danielle.
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- Redreader
- 30-08-22
Wrong narrator!
This is a really good open story of how a girl has come through adversity though I can't get past how such a well spoken narrator uses phrases such as 'hella bad' and 'janky man' it doesn't give the right feel to the story!
Overall I'd recommend this book If you're able to see through the narration.
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- Sheep
- 04-08-22
amazing book
couldn't stop listening. I was gutted when it finished. very glad you wrote it. amazing xx
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- Nicola Rae
- 27-07-22
Very hard hitting
Difficult to hear at time but that’s gang life and there are lessons to be learned.
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- hms638
- 24-07-22
Excellent
found this gripping. her honesty made it worth a listen, she pulled no punches about her lifestyle. scary how easy it was to slip into that lifestyle. I wish her nothing but the best.
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