Not That Kind Of Hero

A heart-stopping teen romance for fans of Alice Oseman and Judy Blume

Alexia Casale

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571374397
• Year: 2025

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?

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Praise
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• ACT 1: Heroes & Sidekicks
• ACT 2: What’s the Worst That Can Happen?
• ACT 3: A Symphony of Wreckage & Ruin
• ACT 4: The Big Finale
• Acknowledgements
• Reading Group Questions
• Sing If You Can’t Dance Advertisement
• Sing If You Can’t Dance Extract
• About the Author
• Copyright