KATE ELIZABETH RUSSELL

'The book everyone will be talking about' Louise O'Neill'A package of dynamite' Stephen KingA Stylist Best Book of 2020An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacherALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTERVanessa 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 our age.

En 2017, durante una ola de acusaciones de agresión sexual contra hombres poderosos, Vanessa Wye se ve envuelta en una polemica. Su antiguo profesor de Literatura, Jacob Strane, ha sido acusado de abuso sexual por otra exalumna. El escandalo desencadena en Vanessa multitud de recuerdos del tiempo que paso en Browick, un idilico internado en Maine, cuando tenia quince años. Alli, en sus dias de estudiante ambiciosa y precoz, mantuvo una aventura con el magnetico profesor Strane, que logro persuadirla del efecto irresistible que ejercia sobre el. Ahora, casi dos decadas despues, Vanessa se enfrenta a una decision imposible: callar y convencerse a si misma de que su relacion con Strane fue consensuada, o enfrentarse al trauma que marco su adolescencia y tratar de reconstruir su vida. ¿Sera capaz de negar aquel primer amor y rechazar finalmente al hombre con quien ha seguido en contacto a lo largo de los años? ¿Fue amante o fue victima? ¿Es posible que el hombre que ella amo y que juro que la amaba fuera perverso y manipulador? Alternando el presente y el pasado, la memoria y el trauma, los deseos y las emociones de una adolescente al descubrir el poder de su cuerpo, Kate Elizabeth Russell se revela como una magnifica narradora. Mi sombria Vanessa es una

Alternating between Vanessas present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.