About the Author

Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely successful children’s author and has won a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2002 Jacqueline received an OBE for services to literacy in schools. She was the highest-borrowed author in British libraries in the last decade. Sandi Toksvig is a British writer, presenter, comedian, actress and producer. While at Girton College, Cambridge University, she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show for the Cambridge Footlights. Sandi also performed in musicals and plays, and made her television debut presenting the children’s series No. 73 (1982–1986). She has written plays, novels and books for children, and is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015.

Reviews

'An appealing mix of events and reactions that are both entertaining and moving. A book that lingers in the mind long after it is put down.'
*The Guardian*

'Tracy is lively and spirited, and her narrative funny and moving.'
*The Bookseller*

'Told in the zany, entirely convincing voice of Tracy Beaker herself ... The strains of communal life with other children, rivalries and friendships and jokes, all spring to life.'
*The Sunday Times*

'A breath of fresh air. It is entertaining yet tender but by no means sentimental when it confronts the need we all have for commitment in relationships, for trust, for love ... A real bonus is that the book genuinely celebrates the act of writing – and not by preaching, I promise.'
*The School Librarian*