The Places I've Cried in Public / What Magic Is This / Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes / It Only Happens in the Movies / The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

by Holly Bourne

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:

Holly Bourne Collection 5 Books Set:

The Places I've Cried in Public:
Amelie fell hard for Reese. And she thought he loved her too. But she's starting to realise that real love isn't supposed to hurt like this. So now she's retracing their story, revisiting all the places he made her cry. Because if she works out what went wrong, perhaps she can finally learn how to get over him.

What Magic Is This:
Sophia, Mia and Alexis are clinging on to a spark of hope that maybe - just maybe - they're special. But could they really be witches with the power to cast life-changing spells? When the three friends gather to cheer up heartbroken Sophia, they're ready to put their theory to the test.

Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes:
Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at 'normality' for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for the new friends she never expected to make - who each have their own reasons for being there.

It Only Happens in the Movies:
The greatest love story ever told doesn't feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy cliches. Oh, and zombies... YA star Holly Bourne tackles real love in this hugely funny and poignant novel.

The Manifesto on How to be Interesting:
Bree is a loser, a wannabe author who hides behind words. But when she's told she needs to start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. Six steps on how to be interesting.

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About the author

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 health problems. She’s helped create online apps that teach young people about sexual consent, works with Women’s Aid to spread awareness of abusive relationships, and runs Rethink’s mental health book club.

Reviews

[Caylie · Rating 4 out of 5]

All The Places I’ve Cried in Public.

I expected this book to be A LOT better than what it was.

As someone who is currently going through a breakup at the moment I can appreciate a good breakup book. However, the writing style was very child like.

This book describes Amelie and Reese’s love story and how it drastically fell apart. Throughout the book, Amelie travels to all the places she’s cried in public due to Reese. This book focuses a lot on emotional abuse in relationships as well as sexual assault - which are very heavy subjects.

I very much liked the way Holly Bourne handled these topics in her book. It wasn’t too dramatic, but it touched on it just enough.

I loved the idea of the book and I loved the plot but the writing style was what stopped me from giving this book a 5 star rating.

[Mei · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the places I've cried in public-
This book was very intense, you guys have to read it with all your feelings in your skin because I think this book is mostly aimed at anyone who has gone through a similar situation. This book shows the negative impact of an abusive relationship and shows that abusive relationships are not only about physical violence. I myself couldn't be sentimental enough to read the book fully fixated, some parts I skipped because I found it unnecessarily lengthy. It was a beautiful and painful book, it's shocking the things you can lose just because of a relationship. Beautiful book.

[Amalie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn’t make it through more than 130 pages of all the places I’ve cried in public, because of the writing. I could have kept going and a part of me is curious about how the story would evolve and end but I feel like the writing was too simple and “obvious” (over explaining some things that you already get, and didn’t add much to the story). It didn’t feel very deep and pull me in, even though I like the story and the way the book was written (divided into places and now and then etc). I feel like it could have been a favorite of it wasn’t trying so hard to explain the sadness Amelie felt in the book.

[Courtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the places I've Cried in public is my life last year in a book.

[Anything · Rating 3 out of 5]

All the places i've cried in public :3 stars

[esme mae (taylor's version) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Autumn · Rating 5 out of 5]

So memorable (the places I've cried in public) TW: Abuse, Depression and manipulation

[pacifism_is_cool · Rating 4 out of 5]

love them so much
check triggers before reading though