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Yearning Difficulties

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    320 pages

  • Release Date

    2 February 2027

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Summary

It’s autumn in Lake Pristine! Discover the brand new standalone romance from Elle McNicoll, award-winning author of Wish You Were Her.

Zella has just landed her dream student job as the co-host of a show on Radio Panache, Lake Pristine High School - if only she didn’t have to share the gig with her chauvinistic ex-boyfriend.

Her classmate Killian seems shy, but has no qualms calling out Zella’s ex live on air - making Zella immediately warm to him. The thing is: Killian’s been…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781037402180
ISBN-10:1037402189
Author:Elle McNicoll
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Macmillan
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:2 February 2027
Weight:224g
Dimensions:21mm x 132mm x 198mm
Series:Lake Pristine Quartet
Audience Age:12
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Yearning Difficulties by Elle McNicoll - ISBN: 9781037402180
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About The Author

Elle McNicoll

Elle McNicoll is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and screenwriter.

Her debut novel, A Kind of Spark, won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and was Blackwell’s Book of 2020. She is a four-time Carnegie nominated author and was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022. She also received shortlistings for the Branford Boase Award (2020) and The Little Rebels Award (2020 and 2021). In the US, she was honoured with the Schneider Award in 2022.

Her second novel, Show Us Who You Are, was Blackwell’s Book of the Month and recognized as one of The Bookseller’s Best Books of 2021. Her first fantasy middle-grade novel, Like a Charm, was nominated for Best Children’s Book for Older Readers at the inaugural Week Junior Book Awards and received high praise in the New York Times.

A Kind of Spark has been adapted for television, earning an Emmy nomination and winning Best Children’s Programme at the Broadcast Awards and a Royal Television Society Award.

Elle is twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and is the winner of the 2025 Books Are My Bag Young Adult Readers Award for Wish You Were Her. Her adult debut, Unapologetic Love Story, was published in 2026.

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