Journey of a Teetotaling Virgin: a memoir based on a true story

Travel! Adventure! Romance! What could possibly go wrong?

Raised in the safe, protective bubble of the 1950s, free-spirited "good girl," Fay Faron, thumbs her nose at her generation's expectation that she marry and procreate, instead taking off for a madcap life of travel, adventure and romance. Fay soon learns that navigating her way through the promiscuous world of the 1970s will take a set of skills her Sunday school teacher never taught her.

Powering through a series of revenge plagues rained down from The Almighty-Hey, she is breaking ALL the rules, after all-Fay must learn to recreate herself or abandon her road-trip-as-a-lifestyle existence and retreat to the soul-crushing community from which she escaped.

Part historical snapshot, part travelogue and part confessional, this laugh-out-loud memoir is the story of every woman who has pondered the road not taken or grappled with the guilt of not being able to live up to rules she didn't even make.

• "This book is hard to put down. It is fun with some serious themes mixed in. The author's playful use of words kept a smile on my face throughout."

• "Fay's adventures are amazing. She takes us with her around the world."

• "This could have been my story - young, idealistic, naive, exploring the world on a shoestring budget."

• "Great romp through memory lane on the way-back machine."

• "Fun, breezy, optimistic. Perfectly captures the time."

• "A lovely, engaging, thoroughly enjoyable read from a clearly joyful spirit!"

• "Do you even remember when you were a teetotaling virgin? Don't answer that question (you know you'll lie) or begin to blush and stutter. Because just in time comes Fay Faron's Journey of a Teetotaling Virgin. She actually was one and has a good memory. You can both blush and stutter but you'll be laughing all the way. Then you can look back on your own journey with a little more perspective." - Chris Wiltz, The Last Madam