As an adult reading this, Ali's behaviour screams of emotional immaturity and narcissism from very early on. Please note that the trigger warnings for this book are child sexual abuse, grooming, cohesion, manipulation, and cohersive behaviour.

Overall, I have no regrets that I read it and I’m glad that Gibson wrote it; I’m sure that it helped him to get his story out there. This would have been very painful for Gibson but he would have eventually got over it and started again his life. Joe Gibson was 17 and studying for A-levels at a prestigious public school when he had an affair with his 35-year-old teacher. We’re doing something a bit different this week and bringing you an extended extract from Joe Gibson’s memoir, Seventeen, about the troubling affair with a teacher that changed his life (10m53s); and after Rishi Sunak is quick to decry the Australian cricket team, Marina is quick to point out: well, that’s just not cricket…(1m27s).Although written by Joe himself, I found that the way he'd written some events, really made me question what was going on and often you'd forget about the real situation until something Joe did or said, reminded you that he was just a child. Although this generally was a good thing, it led to a lot of such abusive behaviour on both sides of the gender divide popularised in films like “The Graduate” and “The Knack”. This memoir outlines just how easy it is for abuse to take place and how it can happen anywhere and with anyone. Miss P often uses Gibson’s youthful naivety to belittle him, making him feel small and insignificant.

Afterwards, in bed, it's like wrestling with an animal that's been caged, starved, every move greedy and unpredictable.JLS fans go wild as boyband announces new tour dates for summer 2024: 'This just gave me goosebumps! Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! Either way, Joe was not an abused kid anymore than I was; he was a very lucky fellow who got his paws on the lovely Miss P. Seventeen, then, is the straightforward account of what happened over the next two years, when Gibson (not his real name) was still very much a child. My friend Nick is feeling the same pressure and we're larking about, leaping down the wooden Victorian stairs from the dining hall and stumbling into each other, when we almost career into two teachers.

I say affair, but it’s the wrong word — what was really happening was that he was being groomed, manipulated and controlled. They even end up in Spain, taking a shower together and after soaping each other down, Joe bends Ali over as her hands reach out for the wall, and he takes her as the hot water washes the soap off their bodies.

A fascinating and important dissection of coercion and abuse from deep within it, Joe Gibson’s story is so compelling and shocking that to read it is to have it seared on to you. This power imbalance is a recurring theme throughout the novel, highlighting the damaging effects of such relationships.

If you're here, it's probably because you have a thirst for knowledge and a passion for programming. It was a tragedy to see such a promising, affectionate nature be polluted by such a strange and scary woman.I'm still reeling from the scale of the deception during the summer, when Miss P wrote to my mum to suggest I should go on a study trip to Spain, to stay with the family of a university professor she knew. I almost DNF - not from any prudishness, but more because the unnecessary titillation began to make the whole exercise feel more like one of prurience than of insight.