Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and held in a cellar for more than eight years, has released her autobiography.
The 22-year-old's account describes how she was beaten, starved and abused during her incarceration by her captor, whom she describes as "sick".
Ms Kampusch's kidnapper, Wolfgang Priklopil, killed himself after she escaped in August 2006.
The English translation of her book will be released on Thursday.
Ms Kampusch was kidnapped on her way to school, aged 10, and locked in a windowless cell in the suburb of the capital, Vienna, less than 16km (10 miles) from her home.
In her book, titled 3,096 Days, she says was subjected to physical and mental abuse on a regular basis by a man who "wanted to have someone for who he was the most important being in the whole world".
"He seemed not to know any other way of doing this but by kidnapping a shy 10-year-old girl," Ms Kampusch writes.
She says Priklopil used to routinely shout through an intercom system to "obey" him and forced her to clean his house half naked, calling her his "slave".
She was starved and at times beaten so badly she could not lie on her back.
Ms Kampusch also says Priklopil subjected her to some minor sexual assaults, tying her to him and forcing her to share his bed, but she says that it was less about sex and more that he wanted something to cuddle.
Priklopil also shaved her head and burnt her hair, she says, out of fear that police would find DNA evidence of her.
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