The Teacher (McFadden) & My Dark Vanessa (Russel)
I read The Teacher (2024) about a month ago and it was my first McFadden book. I thought it was an easy read and I liked it enough to read it in two or three days. However, I'm now reading My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russel (2020) and I have to say that McFadden basically copied every major plot line of this book and even minute details, such as professions, actions of characters, specific books and poems. I wouldn't be surprised to see a word-for-word copied sentence or paragraph. Vanessa is deeper and has more meaning and less of a "whodunnit" feel and hits darker elements of the teacher/student relationship and is more well written in my opinion, but still the similarities are irrefutable. Has anyone else read these books and come to the same thought?
Edit to add: a commenter linked a previous post discussing this exact topic that is more detailed and better than this one. Redirect yourself there if you want! https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1ed27pz/did_frieda_mcfaddens_the_teacher_plagiarize_from/