Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

By Heather E. Ingram

In the spring of 2000, Heather Ingram, a 30-year-old high school teacher in a small town on the coast of British Columbia, was convicted of the sexual exploitation of a minor for having an affair with a 17-year-old student. A straight A student who graduated at the top of her high school class and won the award for top student in the secondary education program at the University of British Columbia, Ingram went on to become one of the most popular and highly respected teachers at Chatelech Secondary School in Sechelt, B.C. Trapped in an unhappy relationship that was undermining her self-confidence, Ingram found herself more and more drawn to Troy, a rebellious young student in her accounting class. She describes in unstinting detail how what began as a mild flirtation developed into a powerful attraction and then into a relationship of several years' duration, which had the full support of Troy's family. Ingram also describes the pain of going public with the affair, the loss of her job and her status in the community,her trial and conviction, and the ten months she spent under house arrest.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550549804
• ISBN13: 9781550549805
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

GREAT

I think this was an absolutely fantastic book. We, the people, not the accusers finally get an insight of what someone is thinking while commiting a crime over a time period. I loved this book, it was the best one i have read since Lovely Bones.

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

I have to say I finished this in 1 day. Could not stay away from it. Story is soooo absorbing, the woman its about is weak, and looking to be accepted but no weaker than a NORMAL woman is about a man (In this cause I use this loosely), but again most normal women have relationshiops with MEN age suitable. Great story, heartbeaking in its truth. Hat goes off to author for reveiling heartfelt emotoin at the risk os sounding like a fool chasing your own youth. Makes you want them to STILL be together.

Risking Everything for love

Heather Ingram was a respected teacher by not only her students but her co-workers as well. In this book she tells of her 3 year love affair with her student "Troy". The deeper you read the more you get to know and understand Heather's true feelings of love towards this person she saw as the man of her dreams.This was the type of book once you opened it you couldn't put it down. It took me three days and I loved it.

Good Person, Bad Choices

I couldn't put it down, I finished it in two days. It is not a love story with a fairytale ending, but it is a story about love. A true and honest account about two people who fell in love at the wrong place and the wrong time. Heather Ingram describes her love affair with one of her students in a way that is so raw and heartfelt that one cannot help but begin to look past the "scandal" and start to see the truth about two people who found in each other something they were missing in themselves. It is heartbreaking to read about their affection towards one another and to know that if they could have waited only a matter of months (until he was 18 and out of school) that they could have avoided the tragedy, the courts, and the headlines.A truly wonderful book that gives the reader a greater understanding of how every decision we make will shape our lives for better or worse. I cannot say what happened was right, the author herself knows her own mistake. I feel like the relationship was not wrong, the circumstances in which it happened were.