Holly Bourne is a bestselling and critically acclaimed author of adult and teen fiction as well as a mental health campaigner. Holly is very well known for her two novels for adults, How Do You Like Me Now, and Pretending, which are both funny, thoughtful and brutally honest, while also examining difficult subjects like abuse and trauma with sensitivity.

After spending a number of years as an award winning journalist, Holly worked for a youth charity as an editor on the front line. Holly was impacted by the real life stories of the young people that she was helping, and she started writing teen fiction to help educate teens on subjects like obsessive compulsive disorder, feminism and mental health. 

We chat about hating her job as a news journalist (which she also won awards for), why she can’t start a novel without knowing the first line, her experience working on the frontline of a mental health charity for teens, why people are terrified to invite her to their weddings, entering into cat competitions as a form of writing procrastination and the neuroscience behind why our memories of our teenage years are so damn vivid!

Holly, like her work, is brilliant, funny and very honest. She’s been called “the Bridget Jones of this generation”. You’ll soon see why. 

More on Holly:

You can purchase Holly's books via her website:

www.hollybourne.co.uk

Holly on Instagram:

@hollybourneya

Holly on Twitter:

@holly_bourneYA

Holly on Facebook:

@Holly.BourneYA

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