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🗓️ 9 April 2020
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My guest today is the brilliant author Holly Bourne who 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.
(TW: This episode discusses rape and sexual assault.)
Inspired by what she saw helping young people, she started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling award-winning 'Spinster Club' series which helps educate teenagers about feminism. When she turned 30, Holly wrote her first adult novel How Do You Like Me Now?, examining the intensified pressures on women once they hit that landmark age, and the book became a Sunday Times bestseller. She now has her second adult fiction book out called Pretending.
In one review of Pretending a reader says: "the book deals with trauma and sexual violence, there is also heart and humour throughout the pages". I feel like this sums up a lot of Holly's work - dealing with tough subjects through a lighter touch that makes her stories feel more accessible and real.
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0:56.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Lote Delete. |
1:06.7 | My guest today is the brilliant author Holly Bourne who started her writing career as a news journalist |
1:12.3 | where she was nominated for Best Print journalist of the year. |
1:16.0 | She then spent six years working as an editor and a relationship advisor and general agony |
1:21.1 | aunt for a youth charity and she was helping young people with their relationships and their mental health. |
1:27.0 | She started writing teen fiction, including the best-selling award-winning Spincster Club series which helps educate teenagers around |
1:35.3 | feminism. She has written tons of books now and when she turned 30 she wrote her first |
1:41.8 | adult novel examining the intense pressures on women once they hit that |
1:46.2 | landmark of 30. The book was called How Do You Like Me Now and it was a Sunday Times bestseller. |
1:51.6 | She has now written her second adult |
1:54.2 | fiction book called Pretending and it's brilliant and in one review of |
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