Oh, and zombies… YA star Holly Bourne tackles real love in this hugely funny and poignant novel. It features pain and confusion and hope and wonder and a ban on cheesy clichés. The greatest love story ever told doesn’t feature kissing in the snow or racing to airports. Nobody expects Audrey and Harry to fall in love as hard and fast as they do. But there she meets wannabe film-maker Harry. Since her parents’ relationship imploded her mother’s been catatonic, so she takes a cinema job to get out of the house.
(Dec.Genre: young adult, contemporary, romance, feminismĪudrey is over romance. Agent: Madeleine Milburn, Madeleine Milburn Literary. Audrey’s struggles with whether to trust Harry and whether love is worth the pain it can cause are plausible, and though the book does fall prey to an old trope, with Audrey pitted against Harry’s ex, it’s a smart, funny, and emotionally satisfying rom-com.
Alongside snippets of Audrey’s rom-com essay, British author Bourne draws her protagonist as a believable mix of self-awareness and inexperience as she does her best to cope with her selfish father and hurting mother, her largely absent brother, and Harry’s omnipresent ex. Seventeen-year-old Audrey is also working on a school project about romance movies, which she thinks encourage unsustainable relationship expectations. This doesn’t make her immune to his charms, however, especially once she’s starring in his zombie movie, a return to acting after her post-breakup retirement from high school theater. Her mother is still suffering from her father’s abrupt departure, and Audrey’s not entirely over having “bought the I-lost-my-virginity-to-an-attractive-but-morally-bankrupt-asshole T-shirt.” When she starts a new job at a fancy movie theater in Bridgely-upon-Thames, she recognizes coworker Harry as a charming flirt who hits on everyone.
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