Press

Praise for Restless Virgins,
The New York Times Bestseller and #1 Boston Globe Bestseller:

“Part MTV drama and part investigative reporting.”

– Boston Globe Book Review

“A shocking look at the sexual behaviors of privileged teens…the important subject that everybody should be talking about with their kids at home.”

– Natalie Morales, Today

“It is clear that something is very wrong in the life of contemporary teens… As Jones and Miley expertly document, today’s teens have come a long way from simply worrying about a date for the prom.”

– O, the Oprah Magazine

“The book offers a student’s-eye view [and] reads like a compendium of the big gossip of the year. We hear it all…The students discuss their lives in detail – the hookups, the weight obsession, the spoils of popularity…. There’s so much casual sex happening so rampantly that after the scandal breaks, the kids feel the adults are overreacting.”

– New York Times Book Review

“There are startling scenes in Restless Virgins that are bound to – and meant to – shock readers… Restless Virgins takes the reader into the locker room, dorms, parked cars, basement parties, hotel rooms, bars, and on spring break. The boys’ demands and the girls’ deference is a common theme; of the 28 interviewees, only one girl was in a healthy relationship, the authors say. They write in a highly personal, omniscient ‘we-were-there’ style, reconstructing racy scenes – and interior thoughts – that they… pieced together from multiple interviews and sources.”

– Boston Globe

“What the authors do find… are girls who are willing, eager even, to submit to boys. And to their credit, Jones and Miley don’t gloss over how sexist, and humiliating, this state of affairs is… The authors sensitively convey how these particular kids explore sex.”

– Washington Post

“It’s a safe bet that copies of Restless Virgins, a new book about the Milton Academy, won’t be handed out at this week’s orientation at the elite coed prep school. But students are sure to have copies of this racy tome squirreled away. The controversial book chronicles the school year of 2004-2005, when a sex scandal drew unwanted nationwide attention to the 200-year-old academy.”

– Time.com

“As I was reading, I had to keep flipping back to the beginning where it says Restless Virgins is a work of nonfiction because it’s written in such a way that you’re telling people’s stories about real people. It’s written like it’s a…novel, but all of the things in the book really happened.”

– Gayle King
Oprah & Friends XM Radio

“Your weekly must-have: ‘Restless Virgins’. ‘Gossip Girl,’ about students at an elite prep school on the upper East Side, is all sexy, edgy and titillating. Meanwhile, ‘Restless Virgins,’ about students at an elite prep school outside Boston, is rather sad. What’s the difference? Reality, mostly.”

– New York Daily News

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