Tbh I’m rly surprised this site hardly mentions (if not never mentions AT ALL) Jacqueline Wilson

For those who don’t know, she’s a British author for books such as The Illustrated Mum, My Sister Jodie ans the Tracy Beaker series. Her books often revolve around, as her Google page says, ‘themes of adoption, divorce and mental illness’ and is thus very controversial. I for one am on the side who thinks her books are fantastic and a great portrayal of real life problems.

Even though I haven’t finished reading it yet, one of my favourite books by her so far is The Diamond Girls. The story (from the little bit I’ve read and heard of so far) is about a young girl called Dixie, who lives with her mum, who’s very sort of ‘spiritual’ and believes in tarot cards, as well as her three other sisters WHO ALL CAME FROM DIFFERENT FATHERS. Each have a different personality and their own problems and they end up moving to another house because the mother is about to have another baby and it’s just a really good portrayal of (in this case, slightly) broken families and divorce and mental illness (I believe Dixie has some form of autism honestly)

Anyway, what I wanna say is that Jacqueline Wilson is a very smart and talented writer who delves into the darker and more realistic side of life and she portrays them wonderfully. She’s 71 right now so I don’t know if she’s still writing, but I highly recommend you guys give her books a read if you’re in a tough situation involving divorce or mental illnesses right now.