About Restless Virgins

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Restless Virgins is the riveting real-life story of a group of seniors at Milton Academy, an elite prep school near Boston, MA, set during the year of a widely publicized sex scandal in the winter of 2005.

Behind the Book

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The offense? Teenagers doing no more than what others had done before them, except this time they got caught.

But Restless Virgins is not just about a scandal, nor is it just about a prep school.  It’s a compassionate, honest story about the lives of seven high school seniors, set against the backdrop of the scandal. As a work of narrative nonfiction, Restless Virgins is based entirely on facts and reads as a story. At its core, the book reveals the changing landscape of teenage sexuality through the intimate details of what it’s like to be a girl and a guy in high school today.

And so Restless Virgins is about fitting in, taking risks, hooking up, and breaking up. About best friends and parents, settling and survival, and always the search for love. It’s about girls: Annie, Whitney, Jillian, and Isabel. And it’s about guys: Reed, Josh, and Brady. Their stories are uplifting, heartbreaking, over the top, and outrageous. Everything that happens here is true.*

*Names and certain characteristics and details have been changed.

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