An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS AWARD
'A package of dynamite' Stephen King
‘Powerful, compulsive, brilliant’ Marian Keyes
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 MONSTER
Vanessa 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.
Amanda
21.5.2025
Excellent modern story similar to Nabokov's "Lolita" and--as it's told from the perspective of the victim--harder to misrepresent as a "love story". The few graphic abuse scenes are done well and are disgusting rather than titillating, and the book's version of Humbert is altogether more obviously gross and pretentious. A must-read for anyone who thought "Lolita" was either smut or glorifying child abuse, as the message is portrayed more simply in this novel.
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