Dimensions
129 x 198 x 21mm
Natalie Lucas was just fifteen when she began a close relationship with a man in his early sixties. Matthew opened Natalie's mind and heart to philosophy and literature. Within months they had entered into the intense, erotic affair that they would disguise as an innocent intergenerational friendship for several years. Together they mocked the small-town busybodies around them, laughing at plebs like her parents and his in-laws who were all too blinkered by convention to live pure lives. Only Natalie and Matthew were truly free.
Or so she once believed. But when Natalie left her hometown for university and told Matthew she wanted to try to live a normal life, his affection soon turned into a consuming obsession.
Written with remarkable candour and grace, Sixteen, Sixty-One is more than an account of suburban grooming: it is the gripping story of a young girl's sexual awakening and journey into womanhood.
