Widening the scope of fiction, reflecting more diverse perspectives and keeping up with the zeitgeist are all excellent aims, but in the recent rush to include Bame, trans and non-binary characters, not every YA novelist has wholly avoided the charge of bandwagon-jumping. Thankfully, All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue (Walker Books, £7.99) manages to present a non-binary character with subtlety and warmth. Perhaps it works so well because, being an occult-tinged mystery-romance steeped in Irish folklore, there’s a lot else going on.
