The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

by Holly Bourne

  First published in the UK in 2014 by Usborne Publishing Ltd., Usborne House, 83-85 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8RT, England. www.usborne.com

  Text © Holly Bourne, 2014

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  Photograph of Holly Bourne © Jonny Donovan

  Quote from “As Bad as a Mile” by Philip Larkin

  Quote from “This Be The Verse” by Philip Larkin

  Excerpt from The History Boys by Alan Bennett

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  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  ePub ISBN 9781409579571

  Batch no. 03250-02