- Juvenile fiction, Family, Mothers, Tattooing
A powerful novel of two sisters who have to cope with living in a very dysfunctional household where their tattoo-crazy mum has real difficulties in coping. A new edition with new cover look and introduction.Dolphin adores her mother: she's got wonderful clothes, bright hair and vivid tattoos all over her body.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jacqueline Wilson
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Limited, Random House Publishing Group, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9781407045177
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“Marigold started going weird again on her birthday.”
Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE FRSL (born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature. Her novels have been notable for featuring realistic topics such as adoption and divorce without alienating her large readership. Since her debut novel in 1969, Wilson has written over 100 books. When Wilson began to focus on writing, she completed several crime fiction novels before dedicating herself to children's books. At the age of 40, she took A-level English and earned a grade A. She had mixed success with about 40 books before the breakthrough to fame in 1991 with The Story of Tracy Beaker, published by Doubleday. As her children's novels frequently feature them
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