A girl shares what it’s like to live with autism in Elle McNicoll’s award-winning debut novel, Like Invisible Sparks.
What most neurotypical people – i.e. the “normal people” – know about autistic people is limited. To give a halfway adequate definition of the multifaceted neurodevelopmental disorder would not do justice to the debut novel “How Invisible Sparks” by the Scottish author Elle McNicoll – who is herself autistic. The novel received the prestigious Waterstone Children’s Book Prize in 2021.