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Amazon Kindle #1 Best Seller
To my knowledge, no publicly known self-published author from a working-class or council-estate background has achieved a chart run quite like this: six consecutive months at #1, followed by two months at #2, one month at #3, with the surrounding months holding firmly at #4, before returning to #2 in the tenth month, an extraordinary first-year display of sustained chart dominance.
In Year 2 (2026), the book returned to #2, climbed back to #3, and then reclaimed the #1 Best Seller position in LGBTQ+ categories. The audiobook also entered the Audible UK World Women's Charts, reaching #10.
The book has additionally charted at #4 and #5 in the U.S. Amazon LGBTQ+ and Teen Biography categories, and reached #7 globally in Women's Biography. While many authors achieve bestseller status, sustained month-by-month chart success on this scale, combined with a working-class life story, remains exceptionally rare.
In Before I Was Born, She Did This, Alia Breeze lays everything bare. Born under a false identity, she endured neglect, cruelty and abuse at the hands of her mother. She was starved, bitten, left alone in freezing conditions, soaked in urine and without bedding. Though placed on the child protection register, no one came.
At fifteen, she escaped. The kindness of friends helped her survive, but it was poetry and music that ultimately saved her life. Through words, she found refuge. Through creativity, she found her voice.
Her mother rarely spoke to her except to bully and humiliate. Years later, Alia uncovered a truth more horrifying than memory itself: her mother had a past conviction involving the death of a baby.
This is more than a memoir of survival. It is a reckoning. From women's refuges to drag performance, from Liverpool's spoken-word scene to the pages of this book, Alia brings an unfiltered truth into the light.
A life that was never meant to be lived, lived fully.
Ruthless in truth. Raw in heart. Impossible to ignore.
She lived to tell it.
Now she's telling it all.
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