Seventeen
The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student

While it feels almost wrong to have to give this book a rating, it certainly deserves 5 stars. It is a devastatingly evoked account of being a child subjected to abuse by a teacher, a tightly constructed story that somehow still manages to floor you, even when you're become used to its central premi......more

3.5 stars rounded up. It’s September 1991 and sixteen year old Joe has just started at a new private school. He and his parents have enthusiastic plans for his future. Yet things go awry when Miss P, a thirty five year old teacher, starts to take an interest in him. And so begins a torrid love affai......more

An outstanding memoir - uncomfortable, nostalgic, painful and powerful. Joe’s words remember a cruelly stolen 90s youth, and the contrast between his 17 year old self and the world he became trapped in is painfully apparent. This is the story of coercive control and abuse of a 17 year old boy by his......more

Det føles virkelig forkert at give den fem stjerner but alas, here we are. Jeg er så ked af, at der er nogle mennesker, der desværre går igennem det som Gibson er gået igennem, men vil også samtidig bifalde hans mod for at dele sin historie og blandt andet vise, at kvinder også kan være sexual preda......more

A powerful, uncomfortable and gripping true story. This is a book that will stay with me; an eye opening and important read that gives an insight into a teenager’s mind and the way in which female coercive control is so easily overlooked and underestimated. Joe Gibson (pseudonym has been used) has b......more