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FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title: It Only Happens In The Movies Author:  Holly Bourne Publisher:  Usborne Publishing Price:  7, 99€ (Amazon) Pages:  411 Genre:  Movies, Love Story, Feminism Year:  2017 BACK OF THE BOOK / WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Bad boys turned good, kisses in the rain, climbing through bedroom windows ... IT ONLY HAPPENS IN THE MOVIES. When Audrey meets Harry, it's the start of a truly cinematic romance - or is it? Audrey knows that Harry is every movie cliché rolled into one. But she still chooses to let him into her heart ... - Audrey is over romance. Since her parents' relationship imploded her mother's been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But that doesn't mean things are easy. Because real love isn't like the movies... The greatest lov...

FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK Title:  AM I NORMAL YET? (Spinster Club 1) Author: Holly Bourne Publisher:  Usborne Publishing Price: 7, 99€ (Amazon) Pages:  433 Genre: Mental Illness (OCD-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder), Feminism Year:  2015 BACK OF THE BOOK/ WHAT IS IT ABOUT? NORMAL AT 16 = College: check Friends who won't dump you: check Parties? Fun?: check A boyfriend?: ... All Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as the-girl-who-went-nuts, there's only one thing left to tick off her list... But relationships can mess with anyone's head - something Evie's new friends Amber and Lottie know only too well. The trouble is, if Evie won't tell them her secrets, how can they stop her making a huge mistake? THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK TRIGGER WARNING and thoughts on the OCD portrayal I bought this book because the word "Feminism...