In Leicester I attended Karma Nirvana’s Women Empowerment Roadshow, and met my hero, Jasvinder Sanghera. As you can see, we swapped books, and I’m holding Shame, her own story of escaping a forced marriage.

Also at the event was Sophie Lott of the Forced Marriage Unit , who gave an excellent overview of the incidence of forced marriage in the UK, including a breakdown of the statistics by age, gender and focus country. It would be great to see this kind of information collected and made available in Australia, to better understand how to prevent forced child marriage.