Virgin

Virgin
Radhika Sanghani

I don’t need the perfect guy.I don’t need candlelight or roses.Honestly, I don’t even need a real bed…Ellie Kolstakis is a twenty-one-year-old virgin.She’s not religious. She’s not waiting for marriage. She’s not even holding on for The One.Ellie’s just unlucky.But with her final year of university coming to an end, she’s determined to shed her V-plates, once and for all.And she’s ready to try anything - from submitting to her domineering Greek mother’s matchmaking skills to embracing the world of nether-waxing trends (no-one wants a ‘Hitler’) and even YouTube tutorials on how to give a ‘blow gift’ (it should never be a job).After all, what has she got to lose? Well, besides the obvious.Praise for VIRGIN'Laugh out loud…Bridget Jones could take a page from this novel' - Joan Rivers‘An entertaining romp’– Emma Barnett, broadcaster and women's editor of The Telegraph’Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw, meet your wisecracking, vagina obsessed match. Sanghani's debut is a hilarious, irreverent look at smart-alecky, painfully self-conscious, 21-year-old Ellie's relentless mission to rectify a disastrous first attempt at performing oral sex, get deflowered, find the perfect Brazilian wax, avoid her tradition-bound Greek mother's nagging, graduate summa cum laude, be a writer, and fit in…This story for millennials is a wonderful blend of modern agnst with old-fashioned sweetness.” -Publisher's Weekly

RADHIKA SANGHANI is a twenty-three-year-old journalist. She works full-time for The Daily Telegraph’s Women’s section, where she writes about politics, health and trends that make her editors blush. She grew up in London, but spent time working in Chile and Barcelona, where she fell in love with the Spanish language. She studied English Literature at University College London, followed it up with a Master’s in Journalism at City University London and now spends all of her time writing.

You can find her tweeting at @radhikasanghani (http://www.twitter.com/radhikasanghani).

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To anyone who has ever gone through the pain of a Brazilian wax

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#ulink_1b5293aa-709f-585b-bea6-c35bb8f4d50a)

I could not have written Virgin without my girlfriends—you all know who you are. Your honest confessions about masturbating, finding semen in bath tubs and battling with your pubes have given me so much inspiration and endless laughter. Thank you.

To everyone who read Virgin when it was just the slightly weird book I was writing to cheer myself up—thank you so much for your invaluable feedback and for loving Ellie. That’s you, Sarah Walker, Bex Lewis, Ella Schierenberg, Sarah Johnson, Rhiannon Williams, Olivia Goldhill, Andrea Levine and even Kim Leigh. Thank you, Rory Tyler, for being the only male I know who was brave enough to read Virgin. I know you’re still not over the Mooncup.

I also really want to thank my parents. You had no idea I was writing Virgin until I told you it was being published. I know a lot of it has been quite a surprise to you and not what you expected I would write, but thank you for still being so proud of me and supporting me.

Thank you to my editor, Anna Baggaley, and everyone at Harlequin for carefully editing Virgin and loving it so much from the very start.

Lastly—none of this would have happened if it wasn’t for Maddy Milburn, my agent. Thank you so much for believing in Virgin and making this all happen!

Table of Contents

Cover (#u97abcdb5-e457-5390-aad8-b546007f99f0)

About the Author (#ued09bce9-25a4-558e-a65a-7a0b7de49662)

Title Page (#u654ab4bc-3c3f-5e26-8d05-925bc4e793bb)

Dedication (#ubb32326f-b9d6-5cdc-9cc8-39061ca50cea)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#ulink_bdb2e230-0656-531b-89aa-c3e77db60007)

CHAPTER ONE (#ulink_7648b514-88cc-50ef-bf98-f64f5811bbaa)

CHAPTER TWO (#ulink_1c389ba6-7374-5c48-a0fc-376a57cc3304)

CHAPTER THREE (#ulink_7d198b07-0c79-593c-9cd5-268853207eff)

CHAPTER FOUR (#ulink_ab2af5a7-a715-5769-b66a-1bd8d6efb1db)

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CHAPTER EIGHT (#ulink_badd4ca4-5d6f-5749-b524-daab18f8a288)

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CHAPTER TWENTY (#litres_trial_promo)

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