My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell

A fictional but unflinching study of grooming from the inside: how a teenager was made to believe abuse was a love story, and how hard that belief is to give up.

A novel (frequently shelved with true-crime-adjacent narratives) about a woman reexamining, in the #MeToo era, the 'relationship' she had at 15 with her 42-year-old English teacher.