It might seem like a bonkers idea but that’s what makes her endearing. She wants to change the world, even if they are pretty lofty ideas for a teenager.Īnd thus starts a month-long project of calling out sexism in her everyday life. She encounters sexual harassment on the street, gets really shaken up by it and wants to change all of it. She owns her sexuality, she is smart, beautiful (not that it should matter), knows her worth and also aspires to get into Cambridge. Lottie is the driving force – she is the spirit and she is the protagonist of this story. Getting into the story of What’s a Girl Gotta Do?, Lottie, Amber and Evie are three friends who start their spinster club, which essentially is a feminist club to reclaim the word. Just you and your anger and your voice enough. “I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there’s no right or wrong way to change the world. I am very sceptical about picking up YA novels because they, more or less, tend to be about meeting the love of your life while you are in your teens, which gets a bit weary for me as a reader.īut this book was so good that I ended up finishing it in one sitting. And this is my favourite book of the three. What’s a Girl Gotta Do? is the third instalment of Holly Bourne‘s Spinster Club series.
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