Family Fan Club - Softcover

Ure Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007815980 ISBN 13: 9780007815982

Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion, 2007

Synopsis

In this lively, heartwarming story which has parallels with the classic Little Women, five sisters share one hope, that their actor father can come home and live with them all again. A delightful family story with echoes of a classic tale.

Four sisters, each with their own particular hopes, ambitions and dreams, are living with their actress mother in London. As they listen to her learning her lines for her new play, LITTLE WOMEN, they realise the strong parallels between the sisters in the classic novel, and their own lives. Their father is away from home – in the States trying to make it as an actor – and the girls miss him dreadfully. Together, using all their individual talents,to devise a plan to try and reunite their parents.
A hearwarming, funny and lively family story which, although it has parallels with LITTLE WOMEN, quickly establishes its own very contemporary voice.

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Review:

Passion Flower
‘A funny and realistic read – we loved it.’ Mizz

Pumpkin Pie
‘Pumpkin Pie has the heroine I've been waiting for.' Times

Shrinking Violet
Grown-ups love Bridget Jones’ diary, but youngsters will adore Violet Alexander’s.
Liverpool Echo

...the story is timeless, the descriptions of the girls and their relationship spot on and it does a great job of selling the empowering nature of language and story.
Books for Keeps

Excellent for any nine-up and will almost certainly lead to an addiction to Ure. Observer

Becky Bananas
‘The writing transcends any trace of heaviness.’ Guardian

The Secret Life of Sally Tomato
‘Rhymes, sauciness, letters, irony, comedy, comic characters... a proper little turn-on for boys. A must-buy book.’ Books for Keeps

From the Back Cover:

''Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,' sighed Jasmine, stretched out on the rug. 'What?' Laurel's head shot up from the magazine she was looking at. 'What are you talking about?' 'Christmas,' said Jazz. 'Without any presents.' She sighed again; rather more dramatically this time. 'N-no presents?' Daisy's lip quivered. 'No presents at all?' Solemnly, Jazz shook her head. 'Who said?' demanded Laurel. 'Nobody said.' That was Rose; just a tiny bit scornful. How easily people allowed themselves to be taken in! 'She's winding you up.''

Jazz, Laurel, Rose and Daisy are four very different sisters, each with their own hopes, desires and ambitions. But one thing unites them, one wish – to get their parents back together again. Rose thinks that because Mum is an actress and Dad is an actor it's just a fatal combination; actors almost never stay together, she says. But Jazz is determined to make a plan, a plan that will bring their mother and father together again forever and make them a real family once more.

'Family Fan Club' is a heart-warming story of family life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins Promotion
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0007815980
• ISBN 13: 9780007815982
• Binding: Paperback