Is This What You Want?

<b>WHY BE YOURSELF WHEN YOU CAN BE PERFECT?</b> <br> <br> <b>**As featured on The High Low podcast**</b> <br> <br> <b>'MAGNIFICENT.</b> <b>Brutally honest and righteously angry but still HUGELY enjoyable and engaging. I bow down!'</b> Marian Keyes <br> <br> '<b>A thoughtful, intelligent, urgent novel women need to read.</b><b>'</b> Dolly Alderton <br> <br> <b>The highly-anticipated new novel from Holly Bourne, bestselling author of <i>HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?</i></b><br> _____________<br> <br> <b><i>He said he was looking for a 'partner in crime' which everyone knows is shorthand for 'a woman who isn't real'.</i></b><br> <br> April is kind, pretty, and relatively normal - yet she can't seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she's found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful, leaving her heartbroken. And angry.<br> <br> If only April could be more like Gretel.<br> <br> Gretel is exactly what men want - she's a Regular Everyday Manic Pixie Dream Girl Next Door With No Problems.<br> <br> The problem is, Gretel isn't real. And April is now claiming to be her.<br> <br> As soon as April starts 'being' Gretel, dating becomes much more fun - especially once she reels in the unsuspecting Joshua.<br> <br> Finally, April is the one in control, but can she control her own feelings? And as she and Joshua grow closer, how long will she be able to keep pretending?<br> _____________<br> <br> <b>PRAISE FOR HOLLY BOURNE:</b> <br> <br> <b>'Honest and unflinching'</b> <i>Stylist</i><br> <br> <b><i>'</i>Funny, touching and painfully true'</b> <i>Grazia</i><br> <br> <b>'Relatable for any woman navigating emotional time bombs'</b> <i>Red</i><br> <br> <b>'Bourne incinerates the lies we're all capable of telling ourselves'</b> <i>Emerald Street</i><br> <br> <b>'Funny, real and heartbreaking'</b> Lucy Vine<br> <br> <b>'Funny, sad, honest, insightful, up-to-the-minute'</b> Roisin Meaney<br> <br> <b>'Smart, witty and perceptive. Razor-sharp on friendship, self-image and self-deception'</b> Lucy Diamond