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Holly started her writing career as a news journalist, where she was nominated for Best Print Journalist of the Year. She then spent six years working as an editor, a relationship advisor, and general ‘agony aunt’ for a youth charity – helping young people with their relationships and mental health.

Inspired by what she saw, she started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling, award-winning ‘Spinster Club’ series which helps educate teenagers about feminism. When she turned thirty, Holly wrote her first adult novel, 'How Do You Like Me Now?', examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark.

Alongside her writing, Holly has a keen interest in women’s rights and is an advocate for reducing the stigma of mental ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 137,644 ratings · 17,748 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	It Only Happens in the Movies 3.79 avg rating — 26,357 ratings — published 2017 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 18,386 ratings — published 2015 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Places I've Cried in Public 4.01 avg rating — 15,647 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Do You Like Me Now? 3.72 avg rating — 12,431 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pretending 3.88 avg rating — 11,016 ratings — published 2020 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Hard Can Love Be? (The Spinster Club, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 9,442 ratings — published 2016 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting 3.80 avg rating — 8,513 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What's a Girl Gotta Do? (The Spinster Club, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 7,650 ratings — published 2016 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soulmates 3.78 avg rating — 7,906 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? 3.95 avg rating — 5,241 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

by Kate Bolick

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The Big Lie

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The Year of the Rat

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Quotes by Holly Bourne (?)

“Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. "Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I'm so OCD."
NO YOU'RE FUCKING NOT.
"Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack."
NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T.
"I'm so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar."
SHUT UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?

tags: mental-health

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“Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, normal

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“Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of”
― Holly Bourne, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting

tags: happy, inspirational, life, proud

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The Survivors

by Jane Harper

7 votes, 17.9%

American Dirt

by Jeanine Cummins

5 votes, 12.8%

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

4 votes, 10.3%

The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

4 votes, 10.3%

The Death of Vivek Oji

by Akwaeke Emezi

4 votes, 10.3%

Her Last Flight

by Beatriz Williams

3 votes, 7.7%

The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

by Alex Trebek

3 votes, 7.7%

Little Cruelties

by Liz Nugent

3 votes, 7.7%

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

2 votes, 5.1%

Against the Loveless World

by Susan Abulhawa

2 votes, 5.1%

It Only Happens in the Movies

by Holly Bourne

1 vote, 2.6%

Cross Her Heart

by Melinda Leigh

1 vote, 2.6%

39 total votes

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Holly’s Quotes

“To spin the web and not be caught in it, to create the world, to create your own life, to rule your fate, to name the grandmothers as well as the fathers, to draw nets and not straight lines, to be a maker as well as a cleaner, to be able to sing and not be silenced, to take down the veil and appear: all these are the banners on the laundry line I hang out.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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“It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

tags: lifeadvice

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“...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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