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So Thrilled For You
On sale
16th January 2025
Price: £16.99
THEY’RE THE BEST OF FRIENDS. OR SO THEY SAY…
⭐ ‘Brilliant: so funny, so sad, so scary’ Jacqueline Wilson⭐
⭐ ‘It will resonate for all women, and it’s so much fun’ Marian Keyes ⭐
⭐ ‘Part whodunnit, part dark take-down of motherhood’ Gillian McAllister⭐
⭐ ‘Compelling, thought-provoking, unputdownable’ Sarah Turner (The Unmumsy Mum)⭐
⭐ ‘Universally empowering’ Kate Sawyer⭐
An intense heatwave. A high-stakes baby shower. Will it all end in tears?
Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions – but when Charlotte organises the baby shower of hell for pregnant Nicki, the girls are reunited.
Under a sweltering hot summer day, tensions rise – and by the end of the evening, nothing will ever be the same. Someone started a fire at the house – and everyone’s a suspect…
Is it Steffi, happily child-free but feeling judged by her friends? Is it Charlotte, desperate to conceive and jealous of those who have? Is it Lauren, who is finding motherhood far, far worse than she imagined? Or is it Nicki herself, who never wanted a baby shower anyway?
In the aftermath, the police put together the facts – but the truth will shock everyone. Even you.
BIG LITTLE LIES meets EXPECTATION in the incredible new novel from Holly Bourne – it’s the book you’ll want to read three times, then give to every woman in your life.
⭐ ‘Brilliant: so funny, so sad, so scary’ Jacqueline Wilson⭐
⭐ ‘It will resonate for all women, and it’s so much fun’ Marian Keyes ⭐
⭐ ‘Part whodunnit, part dark take-down of motherhood’ Gillian McAllister⭐
⭐ ‘Compelling, thought-provoking, unputdownable’ Sarah Turner (The Unmumsy Mum)⭐
⭐ ‘Universally empowering’ Kate Sawyer⭐
An intense heatwave. A high-stakes baby shower. Will it all end in tears?
Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions – but when Charlotte organises the baby shower of hell for pregnant Nicki, the girls are reunited.
Under a sweltering hot summer day, tensions rise – and by the end of the evening, nothing will ever be the same. Someone started a fire at the house – and everyone’s a suspect…
Is it Steffi, happily child-free but feeling judged by her friends? Is it Charlotte, desperate to conceive and jealous of those who have? Is it Lauren, who is finding motherhood far, far worse than she imagined? Or is it Nicki herself, who never wanted a baby shower anyway?
In the aftermath, the police put together the facts – but the truth will shock everyone. Even you.
BIG LITTLE LIES meets EXPECTATION in the incredible new novel from Holly Bourne – it’s the book you’ll want to read three times, then give to every woman in your life.
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Reviews
Bourne's propulsive plot pulls her readers through an emotionally charged day whilst exploring the tenderest, most shameful and funny aspects of the divisive experiences of motherhood, almost motherhood and being child-free by choice, culminating in an explosive, but ultimately universally empowering, denouement
I enjoyed it so, SO MUCH. I was utterly GRIPPED. So many unexpected but wholly believable twists and turns. I think it will resonate for all women. Yet it's so much fun
The most perceptive book I have ever read
Reading So Thrilled For You I found myself pulled into an all too familiar landscape where the pressures on women - mothers and non-mothers like - were so visceral and acute I had to close the book to gasp at times. A hearty congratulations and a high five to Holly!
PRAISE FOR HOLLY BOURNE . . .
GIRL FRIENDS is a blistering, confronting, and utterly compelling read. It's laugh-out-loud funny and disquieting in equal measures. This is Holly Bourne at her very best
I will never, ever forget [GIRL FRIENDS]. It's more than a page turner - it's the sort of story you inhale . . . This book will leave its readers kinder and wiser, and it will inspire us all to forgive ourselves for our complicated pasts
A total tour de force . . . all at once shocking, validating, shrewd and sharp-witted . . . Just magnificent. Buy it for every friend you have, and then hold a book club to discuss immediately
PRAISE FOR SO THRILLED FOR YOU
I raced through SO THRILLED FOR YOU. I think it's brilliant: so funny, so sad, so scary. (And oh, dear God, it brought back so many memories!)
I loved it. Part whodunnit, part dark take-down of motherhood, and the vast love and limits it imposes on women. It will be huge
This dark and intoxicating portrayal of female friendship cleverly captures how the choices we make as women threaten to divide us. Compelling, thought provoking and unputdownable - I absolutely loved it