So Thrilled For You
On sale
17th July 2025
Price: £9.99
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781529301687
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 ⭐
⭐ ‘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 ⭐
⭐ ‘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
Brilliantly observed, we realise the cost of motherhood and the impact it has on our lives and friendships
Holly Bourne's novel about a group of friends navigating motherhood truly resonated with me
A funny yet thought-provoking tale of friendship and motherhood
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
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
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!
What an excellent, acid-sharp read Holly's book is
The best book I've ever read. Raw, relatable, riveting. Holly Bourne is the best contemporary novelist out there, bar none. This book is going to be a national, if not global, talking point
Captivating, brilliantly smart and heartbreakingly true. Holly has perfectly captured the underbelly of female friendship - the part that we aren't allowed to talk about. Every woman will feel seen in the pages of this book and I couldn't adore it more!
Holy HELL, this was incredible. Explosively entertaining and compulsively plotted but so sensitive, so nuanced and so, so needed. It does beautiful justice to life on all sides of the baby divide, and treats every character's perspective with such tenderness - but there's a blazing political fire at its heart. At times it felt like the postnatal therapy I can't afford . . .
Wow! Totally savage and wickedly funny
A hilarious, dark, raw and honest expose of early motherhood and friendship by Holly Bourne - her first adult thriller and it is a corker!
SO THRILLED FOR YOU is a wildly entertaining gut-punch of a novel, featuring a superbly drawn cast of raw, relatable women. Guaranteed to get people talking. Once you pick it up, you won't put it down!
Unflinchingly honest but also eminently relatable and unputdownable - a brilliant story set around female friendships and motherhood, and so much more. Loved it
An unflinching, pulse-quickening account of friendship and motherhood. The most compulsive book I've read in a long time. I've never seen motherhood written so accurately on the page. Holly continues to be the voice of a generation
A wild ride of a novel - it will grip you from the very first page. A moving, pacy exploration of female friendship and motherhood that's not to be missed
I could not put this book down - it's searingly honest and raw while still being wildly entertaining. Holly Bourne just keeps getting better and better
My favourite book I've read in ages. A smart, funny, and scarily accurate look at female friendship and motherhood
"The flames take the vulva pinata immediately" is possibly the most perfect first line I have ever read, and also sets out exactly what So Thrilled For You will be: darkly comic and brilliantly observed. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
A beautiful roar of a book, so accurate in what is says about motherhood and friendship. So enjoyable, raw and angry
Brilliant. Funny, sad, relatable - I just can't stop thinking about it!
What a blistering read. Searingly honest, funny and awful and desperately sad - this book absolutely put me through the wringer. Complicated friendships, brilliantly relatable characters - Holly Bourne continues to hold up a mirror to society and women's place in it. I loved it. It will give book clubs endless opportunities for great discussion. What a writer. So very good and so so so very true - to the point I wanted to cry at many points
Holly Bourne has a real knack for unpicking the bits of the female experience that we're not meant to talk about
This unflinching and entertaining take-down of motherhood will be one to gift to all your friends
A whodunnit peppered with wit, humour, and a undercurrent of commentary on female friendships, [...] Big Little Lies meets Really Good Actually
I'm pretty sure this is going to be my book of the year. I adored every minute I spent reading this brilliantly eviscerating take-down of the myriad pressures on women
This is a brilliantly raw, emotional look at the complexities of female relationships, marriage and motherhood, all wrapped up in a page-turner of a mystery
Figuring out who started it is just one part, as Bourne questions all you thought you knew about motherhood, friendship and being a woman