Not That Kind Of Hero

Orla has always been the sidekick, never the hero . . .
Until, that is, she secures a funded place at an elite drama course and puts her own dreams first for once in her life. Suddenly, Orla is centre-stage and loving it! But the drama crowd are experienced performers and their parents have shelled out a fortune for them to be on the course. Orla can't help but feel left out - she has to earn her pocket money and her responsibilities at home can't just be ignored.
Then again, doesn't she deserve to want things for herself? Especially when beautiful and funny drama boy, Cass, starts flirting with her . . .
With life-changing auditions around the corner Orla finds herself torn in two by an impossible choice. Should she protect her chosen family, or herself?

A British-American citizen of Italian heritage, Alexia Casale is an author, writing consultant and teacher living in Buckinghamshire. After an MA in Social & Political Sciences and then an MPhil in Educational Psychology & Technology, both at Cambridge University, she took a break from academia and moved to New York. There she worked on an award-winning Broadway show before returning to England to complete a PhD and teaching qualification (full PGCHEP). She now works as Director of YA Shot: a young adult and children's literature festival with a large outreach programme providing free author visits to libraries paired with disadvantaged local schools. Her books for adults and teenagers have received multiple awards nominations and critical acclaim and include The Best Way to Bury Your Husband for adults and The Bone Dragon and Sing if You Can't Dance for YA.