![]() With all these stresses and complications, it’s no wonder Audrey looks at the canon of romantic comedies and finds her life wanting. She pegs her male coworker, Harry, as a “fuckboy” right off the bat-yet that doesn’t change the feelings she starts to develop as they bond over cinema. She has started an after-school job at a boutique cinema. But now her dad has left her mom for a younger model, including new kids, and that makes Audrey’s home life … stressed, to say the least. It Only Happens in the Movies is Bourne’s first standalone YA novel after finishing The Spinster Club series, and it departs from that series enough to stand out while still presenting the same fresh, feminist ideas that are a hallmark of Bourne’s writing.Īudrey was named after Audrey Hepburn, of course-her dad proposed to her mom in Rome because of Roman Holiday. In other words, it’s an epitome of a subgenre of YA in which Bourne has carved out a considerable niche. ![]() It’s time for another Holly Bourne book, and if you’ve been following along my reviews, then you know what to expect by now: incisive, excellent narration from a teenage girl who is at a turning point in her life, some kind of crisis moment, and a lot of honest discussions about mental health, sex, romance, and friendship. ![]()
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