‘Do feminists burn bras as a hobby?’ Ask Holly Bourne

Everyone needs funniness in their lives, says Bourne. Photo: HarperCollins

Holly Bourne’s first young adult (YA) fiction novel, Soulmates, was published in 2013 and since then, she has written five more books, including the recent novella ...And A Happy New Year? That’s six books in three years – pretty impressive by any standards.

When we ask her via e-mail about what inspires her to write, Bourne jokes that nothing spurs her on as effectively as deadlines! The British author is actually an ex-journalist who worked at The Surrey Mirror, and has a first class degree in journalism from the University of Sheffield, where she served as editor of Stiletto, the student union women’s magazine.