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2000: Bright, ambitious fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017: Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa. Now Vanessa finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? -- adapted from book cover
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My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- My Dark Vanessa
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0062941518
- ISBN13
- 9780062941510
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Love, Thriller, Women, Contemporary Fiction, USA, American Literature, School, Coming Of Age, Past, Fear, Dark, Abuse, High School, Teachers, Guilt, Victim, Addiction, Pedophilia, Teacher and Student, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- First published
- 2020
- Original title
- My Dark Vanessa
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 2000: Bright, ambitious fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017: Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa. Now Vanessa finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? -- adapted from book cover