An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller'A package of dynamite' Stephen King'Powerful, compulsive, brilliant' Marian Keyes'Takes a grip on the reader and never lets go' Hilary Mantel - An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher - ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTERVanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. - She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. - Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. It was love. She's sure of that. - Forced to rethink her past, to revisit everything that happened, Vanessa has to redefine the great love story of her life - her great sexual awakening - as rape. Now she must deal with the possibility that she might be a victim, and just one of many. - Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our age.

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My Dark Vanessa: A Novel [Book]

Kate Elizabeth Russell

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