Wish You Were Her, Elle McNicoll
Wish You Were Her, Elle McNicoll
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Wish You Were Her

Author: Elle McNicoll

Narrator: Charlie Sanderson

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/26/2025

Synopsis

An autistic YA homage to The Shop Around the Corner with a pinch of Cyrano, Elle McNicoll's Wish You Were Her is a triumph!

Allegra Brooks is an eighteen year old actress who is secretly autistic. When a journalist publishes a scathing profile on Allegra, she decides to take the summer off in Lake Pristine, to visit her slightly estranged father. There, she befriends the booksellers of Brooks Books and decides to help them plan the popular Lake Pristine Book Festival. As she gets closer to Simon, the openly enthusiastic and neurotypical of the two, she realizes it's really Jonah, the boy she argues with constantly and finds a bit off-putting, who she's actually more and more drawn to. As the summer wraps up and the festival approaches, Allegra has to make some decisions about what she owes to others, and to herself.

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books

About Elle McNicoll

ELLE MCNICOLL is a bestselling and award-winning children's novelist. 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 twice Carnegie nominated, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, the Branford Boase Award and The Little Rebels Award. Her novels have been published in the US and translated into multiple languages. A Kind Of Spark has been adapted for Television in partnership with 9Story and BBC Childrens, with Elle is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing, and currently lives in North London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steph ✨ on June 07, 2025

This was so cute. I loved the neurodiverse rep in this book. It's my first Elle McNicoll book, and I absolutely intend to read more from her now. I've had Like a Charm and A Kind of Spark on my TBR for a while and they've been bumped up now. I also want to get to Some Like it Cold. As someone with A......more

Goodreads review by EmG on September 16, 2025

A charming YA romance, with neurodivergent representation.......more

Goodreads review by Stacyfrancesreads on May 18, 2025

Elle McNicoll has DONE IT AGAIN 😭💘 This book? This book owns me. "Wish You Were Her" is small-town romcom meets quietly revolutionary autism rep, and I was not prepared to be emotionally devastated and utterly smitten all at once. ___________ 🌟 Allegra Brooks is THAT girl 🌟 Let’s get one thing straight......more

Goodreads review by Papillon on July 15, 2025

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this novel. All my thoughts and opinions are my own. I would like to preface this by saying I’m autistic. That being said, I think—more than anything—this book is more of a case study in the difference between autism in men vs a......more

Goodreads review by Holly on June 20, 2025

I would just like to preface this by saying that I am autistic- and I went into this book really excited to see some neurodivergent representation. Unfortunately, I can’t quite explain how much I hated this. But please don’t forget- this is just my opinion, and I do tend to be quite blunt but I abso......more

Quotes

"Another perfect novel from McNicoll. Secret identities! Mistaken first impressions! Masking and personas! An absolutely beautiful, witty, cinematic romcom about two autistic teenagers that feels utterly real and magically whimsical." —Lizzie Huxley Jones, bestselling author

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