Love didn’t keep her parents together and she believes the films give people a false idea of what love is. You’re so middle class, I bet you had the Sylvanian treehouse as a child.Īudrey also hates romance films. That doesn’t mean she can’t help him with his zombie film… But that’s fine with her because she’s sworn off men since Milo broke up with her. Its about Audrey falling in love for the first time, having her heartbroken many times and learning to trust the people who want to be there for her.Everyone warns Audrey about Harry when she starts working at the independent cinema. Audrey’s voice is strong and she grows throughout the novel. This book was amazing and I loved the way nothing was sugarcoated. Her father is a horrible man and her step-mom is not so nice either. And then we have Rosie, who thrives on tearing down other women. Her friends are fierce and strong women who want to be by her side the whole time.

I was rooting for him to be different, for everyone to be wrong about him, but no. He knows he can do whatever he wants and people will still love him. Its open and honest about being a young women, about falling in love and about having your life turned upside down.

She knows she’s going through some tough stuff and doesn’t let anyone tell her she’s perfect and shiny. She starts working at the local fancy cinema and before she knows it things are changing and she’s relying on others more than before.Īudrey is messy, and she doesn’t try to be anything else. She’s drifted from her friends and feels like she can’t be herself with anyone. This book is a feminist take down of the manic pixie girl trope and I LOVED IT.Īudrey’s home life is messy, her dad has moved out and her brother is away at Uni. I knew from the first five pages of this book that it was going to destroy me, and boy was I correct. Oh, and zombies… YA star Holly Bourne tackles real love in this hugely funny and poignant novel. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy clichés. The greatest love story ever told doesn’t feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Since her parents’ relationship imploded her mother’s been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house.

It only happens in the movies movie