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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Love, Trauma and "Hating" Men with Holly Bourne

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Holly Bourne, an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of both YA and adult fiction. Holly discusses her second adult novel, Pretending, releasing 2 April, and her work on the frontlines of a youth charity. She and Hannah talk about approaching writing about sexual violence in a respectful and accessible way, as well as the Cool Girl trope and how this influenced Holly’s writing. Finally, Hannah and Holly discuss unpacking learned behaviours and how there’s nothing wrong with actually wanting love. (Content warning for sexual abuse and sexual trauma.)

Holly Bourne is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of both YA and adult novels. She is a passionate mental health advocate and proud feminist. Pretending is her second adult novel.

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- Twitter: https://twitter.com/holly_bourneYA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hollybourneya/
- Website: https://t.co/yj6HyDDYDI?amp=1

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0:00.0

It's the summer of loving long days, warm nights and all things that sizzle.

0:05.4

Like M&S, best ever cherry wood smoked pork shoulder poshawks.

0:10.2

100% British beef smashed burgers.

0:13.4

And hot and smoky and doya king prawn skewers.

0:17.3

Stop it, Eminess.

0:18.8

You'll have to pry me away from the barbecue with a spatula this is not just food

0:23.9

this is summer loving m and s food subject to availability tis and sees apply in a good shift there

0:32.2

would only be one or two rapes wow and what was so upsetting wasn't just that was also the fact that they didn't

0:42.4

always come across with rapes. They weren't questions with young people going, oh, I've been raped,

0:46.4

I don't know what to do. There were young people describing a rape, usually almost always with

0:52.2

their partner or somebody that they knew, and then asking a

0:55.2

question sort of like, is that normal or should I do something wrong? Yeah, or should I get in a

1:00.2

morning after pill?

1:05.4

Welcome to doing it with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

1:17.1

Hello, welcome back to doing it. I hope that you're staying well and I hope that you're staying inside.

1:25.8

Listening to podcasts. This episode is with the wonderful hollybourne who is an author

1:34.0

you may know some of her y a book's the spinster trilogy and the places i've cried in public

1:40.4

and last year she published her first adult novel, How Do You Like Me Now?

1:46.6

Which I absolutely adored. And her new adult novel pretending is coming out on the second of April,

1:56.0

which is the day after this podcast episode comes out. And I wanted to give it a little extra plug. Obviously

2:04.7

we talk about it a lot in this episode but because of coronavirus a lot of authors aren't able

2:12.1

to do certain press events or book tours and it may not seem like the most pressing thing,

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