Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne - review

‘Holly Bourne writes about OCD so compassionately and realistically and I could really empathise with Evie’

This book completely challenges the mixed messages sent out from society about what a normal teenage girl ‘should be’ and gives a honest and sometimes humorous insight into the life of a teenage girl and the struggles they face day to day.

In Am I Normal Yet?, we follow Evie around while she tries to be a normal teenager while at the same time adjusting to her new medicine dosages and suffering with severe OCD. The way Holly Bourne writes about such a sensitive subject was completely mind-opening and gave me a completely new perspective on a subject that I was not very educated about before. OCD has a very negative stigma about it and it is often not taken very seriously when in fact it is a very scary and dangerous issue that effects many people. Holly Bourne writes about OCD so compassionately and realistically and I could really empathise with Evie. At moments, I found myself having to stop reading because I was crying so much; the way that Evie’s problems are written about, especially towards the end, was so hard hitting and sometimes even made the book uncomfortable to read.

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