ISBN: 0008389314 9780008389314

Category: Fiction / General

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An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD <p>'A package of dynamite' Stephen King</p> <p>'Powerful, compulsive, brilliant' Marian Keyes</p> <p>An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher</p> <p>ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER</p> <p>Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Nuanced, uncomfortable, bold and powerful, My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues of our age.</p>