A DEBUT NOVEL

VIKING   SUMMER 2020

"A TOTAL TIME MACHINE - I LOVED IT."  

Maria Semple, Author of Where'd You Go Bernadette

Harper's BAZAAR's "The Best Summer Books to Read in 2020"

"A powerful, wildly entertaining story of friendship and identity set against the backdrop of the early 80s, an era which has uncanny parallels to today. Brainerd brilliantly captures the struggles of young women trying to find their way in a time when their parents and role models are in deep crisis. Age of Consent is both a juicy page-turner and a haunting, personal portrait of an era." 

Aline Brosh McKenna, screenwriter of “The Devil Wears Prada” and co-creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"