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Synopsis
This is a wonderful story about real family life from Jacqueline Wilson, prize-winning and bestselling author of "Girls in Love","The Diamond Girls" and "The Dare Game". 'I thought it was going to be the best Christmas ever...' When Dad and Mum break up, Em does her best to cheer up her little brother and sister, even though she's miserable too. She dances around and tells wonderful tales all about their favorite glove puppet. Em knows how a good story can make life seem better - she is always cheered up by reading one of her favorite books. If Em got to meet the author, it would be a dream come true. But could her other greatest wish be granted? Is any story powerful enough to bring Dad back? This story is read by Helen Lederer.
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Review
At just over 300 pages, Jacqueline Wilson’s new novel Clean Break may be her longest yet, but her ever-increasing legions of fans will never complain. The more words from their favourite author they can get crammed into one book, the better. The country’s most-borrowed author is again on familiar ground, with a cast of colourful and needy characters that could live just around the corner. Her ability to reflect modern life, and how ordinary people live it and struggle with it, is unparalleled in contemporary children’s fiction.
Clean Break is told from the point of view of Em, or Emerald as she likes to be known, and is about what happens to her mum, gran, and two half-siblings, Maxie and Vita, when the man of the house leaves them for another woman. Her mum’s second husband, Frankie, is not her real dad, but he has been Em’s dad ever since she can remember and she does not want to let him abandon them all. It’s an understandably traumatic departure.
Frankie leaves on Boxing Day morning and Em’s mum, Julie, is devastated. They all cling on to the hope that he will soon return to them, but it quickly transpires that he’s not coming back and that they’re all just going to have to deal with their new circumstances in whatever way they can. Gran just goes on criticising her daughter, which doesn’t help, but Em, Maxie and Vita find solace and comfort in their friends and heroes, real and imaginary.
Despite the story’s sad themes, Wilson always leaves the reader and her characters with the shoots of new, better beginnings and hope for the future. Like any book, its worth is in the quality of its storytelling, and fortunately this particular author is great at doing just that.
(Age 9 and over) --John McLay
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"A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety" (Times)
"Hugely popular with seven to ten year olds: 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)
"Jacqueline Wilson tackles another delicate subject that is close to many children's hearts." (The Bookseller)
" A Writer's Life: Interview with Jacqueline Wilson." (The Telegraph)
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