Kate Monro’s The First Time goes to print

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One of our most commercial books for this season has just gone to print – Kate Monro’s The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including My Own). Here’s the full cover and there’s more about it below. It’s published at the start of May.

Losing our virginity … it happens to all of us. How did it happen for you? What do other people think and feel about it?

Kate Monro is on a mission to find out. She asked men and women – old and young, gay and straight, of religious convictions and of none – how did you lose your virginity?

Springing from her popular blog The Virginity Project, The First Time brings these stories together and asks: is virginity loss a ‘loss’ at all? What impact does the first time have on the rest of our lives?

From the experiences of Edna, who lost her virginity in 1940 aged 25, to Charlie Thomas, a victim of thalidomide whose first-time experience is one of which many able-bodied people would be envious, Kate reveals the bumpy, funny, embarrassing truth about other people’s most intimate sexual stories.

Frequently poignant and searingly honest, The First Time is a groundbreaking and very personal insight into modern sexuality, and the secret story harboured inside us all.