2026-08-28
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Hello, my name's Clare Longrick, Deputy Editor of The Guardian Long Read.
This summer, we wanted to bring you some of our favourite pieces of the year so far.
The piece I wanted to introduce today is titled Any Other Child Would Have Died,
The Miraculous Survival of Nada Itrab by Giles Tremlett.
When a bright, sparky nine-year-old Moroccan girl called Nada Itrab, living in Barcelona,
was invited on holiday by a neighbour, she was only supposed to be gone for a week.
The trip turned out to be the stuff of nightmares.
The neighbour took her to Bolivia as his slave.
She was forced to work, to change her name, to marry him.
Charles Tremlett, who lives in Spain and has written powerfully about the victims of military dictators, traffickers
and terrorists, followed the story of Nada and the people who tracked her down and tried to rescue her.
Like many kidnappings, it doesn't have a simple ending.
But what begins as a horror story becomes an astonishing tale of courage and resilience.
This article contains references to child trafficking and suicide.
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Any other child would have died.
The miraculous survival of Nada Itrab by Giles Tremlett, read by Nora Lopez Holden.