Testimony by Anitra Shreve

From Goodreads

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal breaks. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on camera. A Pandora's box of revelations, the graphic images trigger a chorus of voices - those of the men, women, teenagers and parents involved in the scandal - testimonies that detail the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.

A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and how our best intentions can all too easily lead to our worst transgressions.

My thoughts

This was a local Library Reading group read.  I have read books by Anita Shreve a long time ago and they have met with mixed reception before.  It's not a book that I would have chosen to read if I had seen it on the shelf in the Library, but I am glad that it is one that was on the list of books for the Reading Group.

The basis of the story is set around a New England boarding school and a sex scandal that occurs between a young underage female teenager and a young man.  The sex scandal is caught on camera, regardless of this fact it takes time to determine who carried out the offence as the story jumps around among the characters, relating their involvement in what happened and how their involvement is being dealt with.

I quite enjoyed this story, the writing style, the basis of the topic of the story and how it affected the characters individually.  It did make a great discussion among the reading group. It makes you wonder how you would cope with a similar situation if ot happened among people that you know.