Would you be yelling at the girl on the screen? Chucking popcorn or cushions and screaming “DON’T DO IT, YOU MORON”? A tear I hadn’t even known was there.Īnd I’m thinking… If this was in a movie, what would you be doing, Audrey?

He touched my face, smoothed away a tear with his thumb. He stepped forward again, reaching me this time. “Harry, you can’t just light a few candles and…” That much was obvious but it didn’t change anything.

“Audrey.” He stepped through the candlelight, and I took a step back. My intestines cramped, my stomach curdled, bile rose up in my throat. My heart thudded against my ribcage, like it was using the force to try and pull me closer. The flickering light made him look like a hologram. His hair sticking up at every angle, his hands sheepishly in his pockets, head cocked, his teeth bared in his trademark smile. They lit the whole cinema – tea lights, the stout white candles you get in churches, thin ones stuffed into candlesticks. THE TEN MOVIES THAT MADE ME BY HOLLY BOURNE “Romance films are money-spinning cathedrals of love, wobbling on the foundations of unbelievable and damaging stereotypes.”ĬHAPTER 4: THE BEST FRIEND WHO ONLY EXISTS TO BE YOUR BEST FRIENDĬHAPTER 9: THE BAD BOY WHO CHANGES HIS WAYS JUST FOR YOUĬHAPTER 36: BLOOPER REEL FROM ALL THE TIMES I TRIED WITH ROSIE

Holly enjoys getting lost on long countryside walks, getting lost in very good books, and finding any excuse to go to Pizza Express. In 2017, Holly was chosen as a judge of the BBC Young Writers’ Award with Radio 1 DJ Alice Levine and author Nikesh Shukla. Her critically acclaimed Am I Normal Yet? was inspired by her work at an advice charity for young people and her own experiences of blatant everyday sexism, and was chosen as a World Book Night title for 2016 and shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. HOLLY BOURNE is a journalist and best-selling author of several YA novels, including the Spinster Club trilogy. But she still chooses to let him into her heart… When Audrey meets Harry, it’s the start of a truly cinematic romance – or is it?Īudrey knows that Harry is every movie cliché rolled into one. Bad boys turned good, kisses in the rain, climbing through bedroom windows…

It only happens in the movies