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Seventeen
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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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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- Sigrin
- 04-03-24
Heart wrenching memoir
A raw honest account of a seventeen year old boy at public school and his manipulation by his thirty five year old Spanish tutor .
It’s not often the boot is on the other foot and it’s a woman who has lured this adolescent, but it’s the same grooming.
It beggars belief that alarm bells did not go off with the friends of this woman to put a stop to this, as they knew he was a minor. One friend was collaborative with the deceit taking photos of her son with this young man.
My heart ached for this young man, with the controlling antics of this woman, The culmination of her influence during 1992 hightened the incident in December 1992 when he was so out of his depth with his emotions that I was almost in tears.
Thank you to the author for telling his story (Joe Gibson being a pseudonym), Sadly you have lost, what should have been some wonderful years to this manipulating woman
Thank you to Luke Thompson for his sensitive reading of this book.
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- Peter Collinson
- 25-11-23
Raw honesty
A very moving book . I feel so sorry for the boy whose world was destroyed by the sexually rampant teacher
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- it105
- 02-09-23
Harrowing
An eloquently written and absolutely heart-wrenching memoir - the crescendo of events that culminate throughout the author’s adolescence are in equal parts astounding and terrifying - relayed in a sensitive and brilliant performance by Luke Thompson. Thank you for sharing your story Joe.
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- Charlotte
- 08-04-24
Binge listened to the entire thing
This is such an important story and is really well written and read. I simply couldn’t stop listening. This is such a brave story to tell and the author really should be commended for telling a truth that is so complicated and nuanced in a way that is entertaining without being salacious. An incredible read/ listen.
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- D. Rigg
- 29-10-23
Very well told and read.
Interesting insight into the events and a very honest take on it. Well worth a read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-10-23
Oof
Well written and really well read.
Gripping
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This is story that deserves to be told
and to be heard
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- Fairandhonestreviews
- 22-11-23
A distressing story told well
I liked the way the story was written. It’s of course unusual to hear about male victims of child sexual abuse, especially in a situation like this one. The perpetrator was female. She was enabled by adults who should have known better.
Kudos to the author for having the courage to speak his truth and for doing so in such an eloquent manner.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-23
Powerful, upsetting and impactful
What a horrible woman. This poor boy reminded me so much of myself in my formative years. I hope he has gone on the find peace.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-08-23
Eye opening
I really enjoyed the book , although it made me extremely sad and angry that someone in a position of authority could blatantly abuse a child like this. I had to keep reminding myself that this wasn’t fiction that it was someone’s real story. Thanks for being honest and open hopefully it will give others the strength to do the same.
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- DS1981
- 17-09-23
Powerful and Insightful
It was interesting to hear from a male perspective and listen to the abuse suffered here and how society treated the victim as the pariah when it should have been his abuser. My eyes were opened and would recommend this to anyone to allow them the same experience.
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