
Seventeen
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Narrated by:
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Luke Thompson
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By:
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Joe Gibson
About this listen
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.©2023 Joe Gibson (P)2023 Simon & Schuster, UK
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.
Heart wrenching memoir
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As a result, I received a great story that was hard to put down. I don't know if all of these are true experiences, but it is certainly a very well-written and very well-read book.
Multidimensional experience
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Raw honesty
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Harrowing
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very powerful
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Honest, heart wrenching, uncomfortable
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An incredible insight
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Lolita in reverse
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Very well told and read.
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Gripping
Disturbing
Sad
This is story that deserves to be told
and to be heard
Oof
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