More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.Īs well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children’s Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children’s Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. Kupuj e-booki i audiobooki w Rakuten Kobo. Czytaj bezpatne podgldy i recenzje mioników ksiek. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. Szukaj wyników dla frazy World of Hetty Feather w Rakuten Kobo.

Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.Īs well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children's Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. Girls of 12 plus should enjoy Opal Plumstead.Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. Times are changing and the war will turn the world upside-down. I particularly enjoyed Opal’s beautiful sister Cassie, who, unbeknownst to her mother, has a ‘gentleman friend’, an artist, and poses for him – and that’s not all she does. However, Jacqueline Wilson is excellent at capturing the feel of pre-1914 Britain the class distinctions, the limitations on women’s choices, Mrs Roberts’ wonderfully Pre-Raphaelite house the pressure on young men to sign up and go to war, and so on. In my view, the earlier section could do with judicious pruning.

Then, suddenly, all that disappears and a different story begins when Opal walks, trembling, through the gates of the sweet factory. This is a long book, 520 pages, and, for the first 140 pages, the main characters are Opal’s beloved, if hopeless, father her best friend Olivia and Opal’s struggles at school. Then Opal meets Mrs Roberts’ son, Morgan, who, she feels is her soulmate. Furthermore, she takes her to a suffragette meeting and invites her back to tea. Her life becomes utterly miserable.įortunately, Mrs Roberts discovers Opal’s artistic talent and gives her a more interesting job decorating sweet tins. Her father, an overworked clerk with literary aspirations, is caught forging a cheque and ends up in prison Olivia is forbidden to see her and Opal must leave school and go to work at Mrs Roberts’ sweet factory, ‘Fairy Glen’, where she’s bullied. She copes with not fitting in at school (she’s plump and shabbily dressed) because her best friend, Olivia, is on her side. She hopes to go to university, though her real love is painting. Fourteen-year-old Opal Plumstead is a scholarship girl at a posh school.

Opal plumstead by jacqueline wilson