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Godshot is not only the 2020 book that is most anticipated to inspire glitter manicures; it is also the chilling story of a teenage girl’s feminist awakening, forged in the fires of male predatory behavior. This “hotly anticipated debut”, set in Brixton, south London, is a tale of young love and striving for a better life, which sees Lawrie under suspicion of a crime he didn’t commit. We learn right away that when 32-year-old Vanessa Wye was 15 years old and a shy student at an idyllic Maine boarding school, she had a sexual relationship with her 42-year-old English teacher, Jacob Strane.

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