Age of Consent

In 1978, 13-year-old Bobbie begins a secret relationship with 28-year-old Craig, a disc jockey for a local radio station, a relationship Bobbie feels helpless to stop, especially after Craig takes up with her mother, June, just to get closer to Bobbie. Fast-forward 30 years, and Bobbie's lifelong goal of keeping her past hidden comes to an end when she finds out that Craig has done the same thing to other young girls. Bobbie returns home to testify against Craig. While their history is revealed in front of the court, Bobbie and June must make sense of prior events while dealing with the pain they endured over the past three decades years. Leimbach's (Daniel Isn't Talking) novel is an account of estrangement between mother and daughter and the toll abuse can take on a family. Told partly through flashback and partly through court testimony, this unhappy tale is woven with pain and fractured relationships.