A review by rgoodhart
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

5.0

Shocking, moving, eye-opening. Another book giving insight into what it’s like to be someone very different from me. There’s a lot of chat about empathy at the moment and this book is really good at helping to show what it’s like to be autistic. Addie is a wonderful character, swinging from being unable to find words at all in some immensely stressful situations to beautiful eloquence about the things that matter to her.
Everyone should read this to be reminded that difference is good, and we must never reject those who are not the same as us.
As for Miss Murphy… I just don’t have words for anyone who can behave like that!