The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

Bree is a loser, a wannabe author who hides behind words. But when she’s told she needs to start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting is born. Six steps on how to be interesting. Six steps that will see her infiltrate the popular set, fall in love with someone forbidden and make the biggest mistake of her life.

Review

Probably the best YA novel I’ve ever read, and that’s a strong statement to make. –Emma Blackery

Full of wisdom, heartache, and honesty, this tops John Green in my book. –Never Judge a Book by its Cover

I’d recommend this book to anyone and everyone. –Beth Reekles, YA author (The Kissing Booth)

The banter & bitchiness is UTTERLY ADDICTIVE. –Non Pratt, YA author (Trouble)

Tackles issues like peer pressure, bullying and self-harm, but so very readable. –Bookseller Children’s Buyers Guide

Very much in tune with her audience, this second novel from Holly has characters that readers will relate to and remember long after reading the last page. –Lovereading4kids

Holly Bourne has written an intriguing and well-written YA novel that keeps you turning the pages and is a meaner Mean Girls of sorts. –Booktrust

This is a book which is hard to put down and will find a large audience with readers both older and younger than the suggested age group. –School Library Journal

One of the most honest voices I’ve ever read in YA contemporary fiction. –Books for YA

My favourite book this year. –Boxes of Foxes

Intelligent but introverted Bree might not seem at first to be an every girl but her fears, her emotions, her vulnerability… will strike a chord with both teens and their parents. Bourne is a prodigiously talented author who has the gift of making fiction seem real. –Lancashire Evening Post

As you’d expect this book is witty and clever. I quickly connected with Bree and was chuckling away after a few pages… I loved that this wasn’t a purely happy or sad book but a messy realistic in between much like life really. –Jess Hearts Books

A great book…It made me grateful that I never in my life have to go back to school ever again! –A Book and Tea

Hard to put down. –School Librarian

I clung to my kindle and read as fast as I possibly could… The ending was explosive and when there was ten percent left, I really didn’t know how the plot would end. –Emma Lou Book Blog

About the Author

Holly Bourne is an author and a journalist. Holly’s first two books, Soulmates and The Manifesto on How to be Interesting, have been critically acclaimed and translated into six languages. The first book in the Spinster Club series, Am I Normal Yet?, was chosen as a World Book Night book for 2016 and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize. The Spinster Club series has also inspired the formation of Spinster Clubs across the UK and Ireland. Before becoming a full-time author, Holly was editor of TheSite.org – a charity-run advice and information website for young people.