Her debut novel ‘My Dark Vanessa’ has been called controversial but its contemporary update of ‘Lolita’, which takes a deeper look at power and consent, makes us confront our own complicity, she tells Annie Lord
for the #MeToo generation”. Vanessa is an awkward outsider at a new boarding school who spends her nights pulling meanings from the novel, given to her by her 42-year-old English teacher Mr Strane. His attentions soon turn from academic to physical: a hand touches a leg, a stolen glance, a body presses against another until they are stealing kisses in the blackness of a classroom locked from the inside.
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