As a child, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions indoctrinated in North Korea by the world's mos tsecretive and brutal regime. And yet, having survived the chaos, starvation and repression of the Great Famine, she dared to escape to China in 1991, aged just seventeen. Noew an acclamied international campaigner, her brave and remarkable voice testifies to past horrors and offers the most truthful account of ordinary life in North Korea.