Book description
Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at
home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced
to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading
teenage magazines, they know they're very different to 'normal' girls
- but when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or
speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little
freedom.
Sent to a real school for the first time, Prue struggles to fit in.
The only person she can talk to is her kindly, young - and handsome -
art teacher, Rax. They quickly bond, and Prue feels more and more
drawn to him. As her feelings grow stronger, she begins to realise
that he might feel the same way about her. But nothing could ever
happen between them - could it?
JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular
author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7. She has been
awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British
Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award
(for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the
Children's Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also
highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given
an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was
appointed a Dame. She was the author most borrowed from British
libraries in the last decade.
'A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES
'She should be prescribed for all cases of reading reluctance'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Has a rare gift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional
issues' BOOKSELLER
