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**THE BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW**

‘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
‘Universally empowering’ Kate Sawyer

An intense heatwave. A high-stakes baby shower. Will it all end in tears?

Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions – but when Charlotte organises the baby shower of hell for pregnant Nicki, the girls are reunited.

Under a sweltering hot summer day, tensions rise – and by the end of the day, nothing will ever be the same. Someone started a fire at the house – and everyone’s a suspect…

Is it Steffi, happily child-free but feeling judged by her friends? Is it Charlotte, desperate to conceive and jealous of those who have? Is it Lauren, who is finding motherhood far, far harder than she imagined? Or is it Nicki herself, who never wanted a baby shower anyway?

In the aftermath, the police put together the facts – but the truth will shock everyone. Even you.

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.

HONEST AND RELATABLE: ‘Brilliantly observed, we realise the true cost of motherhood and the impact it has on our lives and friendships’ WOMAN & HOME

BOOK OF THE MONTH: ‘…absolutely addictive. Set during an incendiary baby shower, it’s a clever, funny and frighteningly relatable look at female friendship and the highs and lows of motherhood. Everyone’s going to be talking about this, so read it now’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

‘The highs and the lows of motherhood are explored in this domestic thriller, which will resonate with every woman who reads it’ RED MAGAZINE

‘This social commentary-style narrative is smart, current and funny, and a brilliant portrayal of friendships challenged when faced with parenting and non-parenting’ PRIMA MAGAZINE

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