IT was the book that cost a teacher her job and her marriage.

But Leonora Rustamova, of Salendine Nook, says she has no regrets about writing the controversial novel which ended her teaching career.

Stop Don’t Read This is a fictional story based on Mrs Rustamova’s days teaching at a Calderdale high school.

It contains violence, drug abuse and the odd sexual scene.

And the characters in the book, including the pupils and the teachers, are real people.

Stop Don’t Read This, however, was never meant to leave the walls of Calder High School, Mytholmroyd. The book was born out of frustration and Mrs Rustamova’s determination to teach the unteachable.

The former English teacher, best known as ‘Miss Rusty’, had been given five particularly difficult pupils who refused to read.

In the end she agreed to write a book with characters and storylines chosen by the boys. But the Famous Five it wasn’t, unless the Enid Blyton quintet had grown up on the estate featured in the gritty TV hit series Shameless.

Mrs Rustamova, 41, says: “The Mr Gay UK was a reference to one of the lads who was openly gay. He was always being sent home for wearing dresses.

“You could say I was provocative. There is a reference to a pupil’s sexual fantasy. But the lads were very misogynistic. They would come out with some awful stuff. It was meant as a little dig.”

The book was a success. The boys, who Mrs Rustamova felt had been written off by the educational system, started reading.