I challenge you not to laugh out loud (and maybe also look a little crazy if you're in public.) The book opens with Audrey's mother, completely at her wit's end, holding her brother's computer out the second story window, creating a scene that draws all the neighbors to their front lawn. You just have to read the first few pages to see that. Kinsella manages to make Audrey's family both over-the-top and completely relatable. But the computer game has brought a positive force into Audrey's life: Her brother's friend Linus, who is patient and kind with anxiety-ridden Audrey, passing her notes to have a conversation. In the meantime, her gamer older brother becomes so obsessed with a computer game that their mother becomes equally obsessed with finding him other activities to spend his time.
Sarah who encourages her to film her own life, make a documentary to find her way closer to people. In the aftermath of a bullying incident in school, Audrey has retreated into herself and is buried by social anxiety, hiding behind sunglasses and avoiding any contact with people outside her family.
Bustle had a chance to chat with Kinsella about her new book, her characters, and why everyone will be able to fall in love with Audrey. Kinsella's YA debut Finding Audrey puts 14-year-old Audrey in the starring Becky Bloomwood role. Sophie Kinsella has been tearing it up in the publishing world since 1999's - yes, 1999, I know - Confessions of a Shopaholic, but she has never released a young adult novel until this June.
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