Whip-smart, hilarious and unapologetically honest, The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas is a heart-warming story of one girl trying to work out where she fits in, and whether she even wants to.

Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got lost.

Grace is autistic and has her own way of looking at the world. She's got a horse and a best friend who understand her, and that's pretty much all she needs. But when Grace kisses Gabe and things start to change at home, the world doesn't make much sense to her any more. Suddenly everything threatens to fall apart, and it's up to Grace to fix it on her own.

This book has been graded for interest at 12-16 years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Pan Macmillan .

Rachael Lucas is an author, coach and freelance writer. Her bestselling debut novel, Sealed with a Kiss , has been downloaded over 130, 000 times on Kindle. She lives and works in a Victorian house by the seaside in the north-west of England with her partner (also a writer) and their children.