'Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is
a book not easily forgotten' -Â Karen Joy Fowler, author of We
Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'So compelling and shocking
that to read it is to have it seared on to you. I felt like I was
there. As gripping a memoir as you’ll find' - David
Whitehouse, author of About a Son ‘A truly impressive and
important book’ - Ali Millar, author of The Last Days 'A vivid
and moving story, grippingly told' - Alex Renton, author of
Stiff Upper Lip 'I was addicted to this book' - Lily Dunn, author
of Sins of My Father 'Gripping [...] a powerful read' - Lucy
Nichol, author of Parklife It’s 1992. Like every other
seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other
on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking
ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university
when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an
interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come
true.  For his final two years at school, he is bound
to her, a woman twice his age, in an increasingly tangled web of
coercion, sex and lies. Their affair, a product of complex grooming
and a shocking abuse of authority, is played out in the corridors
of one of Britain’s major private schools, under the noses of
people who suspected, even knew, but said nothing. Thirty
years on, this is Joe’s gripping record of the illicit
relationship that dominated his adolescence and dictated the course
of his life. With a heady dose of nineties nostalgia and the
perfectly captured mood of those final months at school, Joe charts
the enduring legacy of deceit and the indelibility of decisions
made at seventeen.Â
General
| Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Authors: |
Joe Gibson
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
368 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-398-52247-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-398-52247-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781398522473 |
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