
The Girl From Nowhere
by Chris Shallow

At sixteen, Kevin is sent from working-class Liverpool to live with his father in Holland, sold as discipline and a fresh start. What he gets instead is a hospital bed and forced surgery to erase his tattoos. That moment becomes the hinge. He runs. What follows is a life lived in motion — countries, work, music, addiction — until the body calls time. Stealing Chocolate from the Gods is a raw, scene-led memoir about consequence, identity, and the cost of staying alive.