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**THE BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW**
**THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE: BOOKS OF 2025**

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
‘Funny and clever’ Fearne Cotton
‘Universally empowering’ Kate Sawyer

Is being a mother the most defining role a woman can have?

Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions, and motherhood is at the forefront of their minds. But when Charlotte organises a baby shower for Nicki on a swelteringly hot summer’s day, it changes their friendship group forever.

In the aftermath, each woman has a different view on what happened that day – but the truth will shock everyone. Even you.

Razor-sharp, funny, truthful and utterly gripping, So Thrilled For You is a novel for women and about women. It will start conversations and change expectations.

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.

‘One to gift to all your friends’ ELLE

Publisher Review

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 — Gillian McAllister 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 — Sarah Turner (@TheUnmumsyMum) 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 — Kate Sawyer What an excellent, acid-sharp read Holly’s book is — Jenny Colgan 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! — Emily Edwards 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 — Laura Jane Williams 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! — Michelle Elman 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 . . . — Lauren Bravo Wow! Totally savage and wickedly funny — Heather Darwent A hilarious, dark, raw and honest expose of early motherhood and friendship by Holly Bourne – her first adult thriller and it is a corker! — Jo Callaghan 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! — Caz Frear Unflinchingly honest but also eminently relatable and unputdownable – a brilliant story set around female friendships and motherhood, and so much more. Loved it — Catherine Cooper 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 — Abigail Mann 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 — Libby Page 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 — Louise O’Neill My favourite book I’ve read in ages. A smart, funny, and scarily accurate look at female friendship and motherhood — Jane Fallon “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 — Caroline Corcoran A beautiful roar of a book, so accurate in what is says about motherhood and friendship. So enjoyable, raw and angry — Abigail Dean Brilliant. Funny, sad, relatable – I just can’t stop thinking about it! — Giovanna Fletcher 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 — Marian Keyes 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!) — Jacqueline Wilson