A DEBUT NOVEL
VIKING SUMMER 2020
"A TOTAL TIME MACHINE - I LOVED IT."
Maria Semple, Author of Where'd You Go Bernadette
"A powerful, wildly entertaining story of friendship and identity set against the backdrop of the early 80’s, 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"
THE AUTHOR
Amanda Brainerd is a New York City real estate broker, wife and mother of three. She graduated from Harvard College and earned a Master of Architecture from Columbia University after being expelled from Choate Rosemary Hall boarding school in the 10th grade. This is her first novel.
THE NOVEL
Age of Consent is about three young women in the 1980s, who negotiate fraught friendships, sexuality, class, and predatory older men on the journey from innocence to independence. The narrative takes place at a Connecticut boarding school and a summer spent in New York City.