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

Written by:
Joe Gibson
Narrated by:
Luke Thompson

Unabridged Audiobook

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2
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1
Release Date
August 24, 2023
Duration
8 hours 42 minutes
Summary
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 for seventeen years. 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. 
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Miss Biggun

I found this book somewhat triggering after my dad who's now 82 and has Alzheimer's told me of his own illicit affair with a teacher when at boarding school when talking about times pastI'm not sure what I was looking for, maybe some kind of explanation or answer as to how or why this would happen with a female teacher as the predator, but I found it most insightful to understanding some of my dads own confused feelings and emotions

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