Aeriel Sharpe isn't anyone's role model. But, when her mother is elected to be the most important politican in the country (yes, that one), she is thrust into the spotlight.
The narrative around her quickly spins out of her control, as she's used as the face of neurodiversity against her will. How will she handle the eyes on her, and keep her sense of self?
It's not easy being 13, let alone when you're the most famous teenager in the country!
Elle McNicoll is an award-winning Scottish children’s author.
Her debut novel, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. A live action TV adaptation from BBC Children’s and 9 Story Media will be hitting UK screens in Spring 2023.
She is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing and in 2022 founded The Adrien Prize, to recognise children’s fiction that explores the disability experience. She lives in London.
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