Book description
A wonderfully written and engaging teenage memoir: read all about
Jacqueline's problems with her family, her first love, her school life
and her friends. Read extracts from her real diaries and the stories she
wrote as a teenager; learn all about the music and books she loved, her
troubled school life and her parents' difficult relationship. Written in
Jacqueline's usual and inimitable style, this will be fascinating
reading for her fans, and for anyone who's interested in what life in
the UK was like in the fifties and sixties.
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
