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- ISBN 9781035067770
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE STORY is an unapologetic celebration of love, relationships and the women who have historically been shut out of such stories, until now.
Enter Raina Lewis, London's newest autistic 'It Girl' who has investigative journalist Tom Branimir convinced that she can't be as perfect as she seems. If she has a hidden agenda, he's determined to find it, he just has to avoid falling under her spell.
A joyful, whip smart, unputdownable romance, perfect for fans of Olivia Dade, Emily Henry, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Talia Hibbert.
Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and screenwriter. 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 a four time Carnegie nominated author, and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards 2020, 2021 and 2022, the Branford Boase Award 2020 and The Little Rebels Award 2020 and 2021. She was also honoured in the US with the Schneider Award, 2022. Her second novel, Show Us Who You Are, was Blackwell’s Book of the Month and one of The Bookseller’s Best Books of 2021. Her first fantasy middle grade, Like a Charm, was nominated for Best Children’s Book for Older Readers in the first ever Week Junior Book Awards, and was highly praised in the New York Times. Her debut novel, A Kind of Spark, has also been adapted for television, is Emmy nominated and won Best Children’s Programme at the Broadcast Awards and a Royal Television Society Award. She is twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the winner of the 2025 Books Are My Bag Young Adult Readers Award for Wish You Were Her. Her adult debut, Unapologetic Love Story, published in 2026.
