Wish You Were Her

18-year-old Allegra Brooks has skyrocketed to fame after starring in a hit television show, and she's the overnight success that everyone's talking about. They just don't know she's autistic. Now, all she wants is a normal teenage summer. Her destination for escape is the remote Lake Pristine and its annual Book Festival, organized by the dedicated but unfriendly senior bookseller, Jonah Thorne. In small towns like Lake…

About Elle

Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her debut, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, as well as Blackwell’s Book of 2020. She is a five time Carnegie nominated author, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024, the Branford Boase Award 2020 and The Little Rebels Award 2020 and 2021. She was also honoured…
About Elle