Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal

Name: Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gretchen Schreiber
ISBN: 9781250330994

Author: Gretchen Schreiber

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 8 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 03/05/2024

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Disabilities

Synopsis

"Naudus brings emotion, life, and energy to the story...her expert range of voices helps the listener picture Ellie’s friends and fellow residents at the hospital house. Her emotion-driven performance matches the heartfelt tone of the overall story and reels the reader in, ensuring the reader can empathize with Ellie, who is struggling to find her normal."—Booklist

The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schreiber.

Ellie Haycock has always separated her life into sections: Ellie at home and Ellie at the hospital. At home, Ellie is a proud member of her high school’s speech and debate team alongside her best friend and her boyfriend. At the hospital, Ellie has a team of doctors and a mom who won’t stop posting about the details of her illness online. It’s not hard for Ellie to choose which of the two she prefers.

But this latest hospital stay is different. Ellie becomes close with a group of friends, including Ryan, a first-timer who’s still optimistic about the doctors that Ellie stopped trusting years ago. Despite their differences, she can’t seem to keep him out of her head. Ellie’s life has never been ordinary—but maybe this time it will be extraordinary.

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.

About Gretchen Schreiber

Gretchen Schreiber grew up between the hills of Kansas and the hospitals of Minnesota, but now calls the hills of Los Angeles home. After getting her MFA from USC Film School, she works as a professional bookworm for Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon’s media company. She is always down to run away to Disneyland or a bookstore.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on March 05, 2024

A REALLY great YA coming of age debut featuring a teen girl with a very unique condition (VATRS) that includes several serious disabilities and who also has a mommy blogger mother who has spent several years sharing her medical history with the world and just wants to be able to be a 'normal' highsc......more

Goodreads review by Bbecca_marie on March 14, 2024

Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal by Gretchen Schreiber Thank you NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Wednesday Books for the free audiobook. Blurb: The Breakfast Club meets Five Feet Apart in this big-hearted novel from debut author Gretchen Schreiber. ✨My thoughts: I really really enjoyed this story. I ha......more

Goodreads review by Carole on February 24, 2024

Initial Thoughts This was good! I had no idea what this book was about when I started listening. (Yes, I grabbed it for the cover alone.) It didn't take me very long before Ellie's story hooked me. The last thing that she wants is another surgery. She has worked so hard to keep her hospital life and......more

Goodreads review by Spiri on April 02, 2023

I received an uncorrected bound manuscript and uncorrected it was. I’m going to try not to hold all the punctuation and formatting errors against this because it is so early, but the first error was on page 16 and there were several commas/spaces missing. It just kept taking me out of the story The a......more

Goodreads review by Lizzy on February 24, 2024

I love it when the writing is so good that the reader only has the responsibility of getting lost in the story. Gretchen Schreiber, thank you for writing a unique story like this! The world needs it - especially our teens. Ellie Haycock has two groups of friends - her friends at her high school and......more

Quotes

"Told with sparkling wit and endless charm. I fell in love with Ellie Haycock! I think you will too. Either way.. she is totally fine." - Reese Witherspoon

"Gretchen Schreiber's writing is honest, raw, and funny. She seamlessly weaves a story of hurt and humor with beautiful prose and characters that already feel like old friends. With friendship, family, cute boys, and how to stop seeing yourself through the lens of other people's definitions, Ellie is the coming-of-age story everyone should read." - Kristin Dwyer, author of Some Mistakes Were Made

"Soul-deep and sharply poetic, Schreiber’s debut deftly rewrites conventions with poignant detail. With resonant romance and an iconic central character, Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal is extraordinary." Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of Always Never Yours

"Featuring a cast of characters you can't help but fall in love with, Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal is whip-smart, sharply funny, and deeply poignant." - Kara McDowell, author of The Prince & the Apocalypse

"Schreiber employs witty banter and acerbic first-person narration to unravel complexities of disability identity as Ellie learns to self-advocate, redefines what 'normal' means to her, and reckons with how chronic illness can affect relationships with others and oneself." - Publishers Weekly

"Honest and illuminating." - Kirkus Review