We are thrilled to announce that Elle McNicoll's debut, A Kind Of Spark, has absolutely smashed it and has had a DOUBLE weekend review from both The Times and The Sunday Times!
Not only is Elle's hilarious and heartwarming middle grade book The Times Children's Book of the Week, it is also now The Sunday Times Children's Book of the week too.
Read the full review by Nicolette Jones here:
In this remarkable debut, McNicoll writes out of her own experience, in a novel that has an autistic narrator. Eleven-year-old Addie lives in a small Scottish town and has elder twin sisters, one of whom is at university and also autistic, and the other who is neither and has a make-up blog. Addie encounters the worst kinds of prejudice and misunderstanding from others, particularly one of her school teachers, but this story illuminates her thoughts and feelings and the responses of her allies: her family and her friend Audrey. Addie learns at school about “witches” who were killed in her village, and identifies strongly with them, recognising that they were vilified for being different. She campaigns to have them commemorated. An involving story with a protagonist we root for.
Elle is a Scottish and Neurodivergent writer, happily living in London. She graduated with a first in Creative Writing and has worked as a…