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Romance
The Hating Game
Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman share an office, a desk facing each other, and an all-co…
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Sally Thorne is an Australian author based in Canberra, best known for her 2016 debut novel The Hating Game, a workplace enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy that became a USA Today bestseller, sold in more than twenty-five countries, and was adapted into a 2021 film starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell. Before turning to fiction, Thorne worked in government, spending her days writing funding submissions and drafting contracts — an experience she has cited as the direct inspiration for a novel set almost entirely in a publishing office. The Hating Game was named among the top twenty romance novels of 2016 by the Washington Post and was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Best Romance. Her second novel, 99 Percent Mine, was released in January 2019 and debuted on the USA Today bestseller list. Her third, Second First Impressions, followed in 2021. Thorne has spoken about writing romance as an attempt to satisfy readers searching for an intensity that she felt was increasingly hard to find in the genre, and her books are consistently cited as foundational texts of the modern enemies-to-lovers revival.
Notable works: The Hating Game; 99 Percent Mine; Second First Impressions