My Dark Vanessa

My Dark Vanessa

Narrated by:
Grace Gummer

Unabridged Audiobook

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Ratings
Book
22
Narrator
8
Release Date
March 2020
Duration
15 hours 35 minutes
Summary
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.
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kxthleen

took me three years to finish this because it is HEAVY but god, it’s a magnificent piece of literature and grace does a fantastic job of narrating it.

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Anonymous

Despised the book!

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Anonymous

Astounding. One of the best books I've ever encountered.

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Anonymous

I really enjoyed the book overall, but I felt the middle part of the book was a bit drawn out.

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Robin M.

Extraordinary. The writing is exquisite, the characters wonderfully developed and tragically flawed, and the narrator the best I have listened to. It’s intense, it’s uncomfortable, but it’s absolutely unmissable.

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Ruth H.

I really enjoyed the narration. The first and last third were engaging but the middle felt too long. I think the book could be considerably shorter and still be effective

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