"The book is a vivid account of Bella's years of abuse by her athletic coach, presented with respect and deference through the self-described 'non-conventional' approach of collaborative autoethnography. ... Owton's book can serve as an excellent model for other researchers to use."(Katrina S Hacker and Margaux Genoff Garzon, Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2018)



"This book is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate students, instructors, coaches, or anyone who is concerned about or wants a greater understanding of sexual abuse. It is an ideal supplemental text for a gender and psychology class, an introduction to psychology class, or a sport psychology class. ... Through reading the book, students, practitioners, and professionals will reflect on a taboo issue that occurs in sport and hopefully consider ways to make sport safer for all." (Jennifer J. Waldron, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (13), March, 2017)


"The book is a must read for anybody who has children participating in sport or indeed is immersed in a sporting context (i.e. coach, official). ... this book awoke my consciousness to what sexual abuse and exploitation is as well as the associated grooming process." (Jenny McMahon, Children & Society, Vol. 32 (2), 2018)

"This book is most directly useful for: social science academics; sport and/or sociology university students and therapists/potential therapist. Readers of Psychology & Sexuality will find the book to be very powerful; thought provoking and; vastly informative of the area of sexual abuse in sport, which is too commonly an unnoticed and under-represented subject in academia." (Rebecca House, Psychology & Sexuality, Vol. 8 (4), 2017)