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At the end of the novel , Adoption UK provides the reader with context around how both societal attitudes and adoption have changed since the 1960s. It also highlights some of the issues adopted people still experience today – including identity and the complexities of having two families – and signposts anyone affected by any of the topics raised in the novel, to Adoption UK’s helpline. Fiery Redhead: Averted with both Moira, who is a sweet tempered girl from an entire family of redheads and with Sarah, who is somewhat smug and pious but never once loses her temper. Today, she has no plans to stop writing, and is a little exercised by the way society treats older adults. “We’re all so careful about not upsetting any member of the community but we do [say] ‘daft old biddy’, ‘silly old codger’. We do patronise the elderly and I’ve noticed once or twice when I’ve had to make a phone call about something and your age or health status is important, I’ve had one or two very well meaning people say ‘ahh bless.’” year-old Laura comes from a proud working-class family. Young for her age, Laura hasn’t had any experience of boys until she befriends glamorous, wealthy Nina, the daughter of two doctors. Laura is incredibly flattered by Nina’s attention, but aware she lives in what’s known as the “Shanty Town”, while Nina has everything she could possibly wish for, and kissing experience to boot. The dynamics between the two girls is incredibly realistic, perfectly capturing the differences between them. It's 1960 and Laura is a fourteen year old girl who is just trying to be a normal teenager despite her overprotective mother. Naive and unprepared for the adult world but desperate to prove that she's no longer a little girl, Laura ends up falling pregnant during a confusing sexual encounter with an older boy. Her parents are horrified and send her away to Heathcote House, a special home for young mothers, so she can have her child in secret and then have them adopted. Laura has other ideas and is determined to keep her daughter no matter what anyone else might say.

That’s one of the disadvantages of living in the country,” she says. “There are lots of advantages.” Armitstead, Claire (14 February 2004). "Profile: Jacqueline Wilson". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 29 September 2017. Parental Favouritism: An older Laura in the Distant Finale admits that, while she still very much loves her two other children that she had with her husband later on, she secretly favours Kathy over them, which Kathy seems to know too.The book will pose certain questions. What sort of life was on offer in a mother and baby home of the 1960s? How will the birth of the child be handled? And what prejudices will be faced by Laura and the other young mothers? Will Laura wish to keep her baby? If so will she be encouraged or even allowed to do so? Things start to change for Laura - first her moods, and then her body. Laura isn't prepared for what she learns next - and doesn't even know how it could have happened. When her family learns her secret, they are horrified. Sent away to save them from shame, Laura meets girls just like herself, whose families have given up on them - and they become a family for each other at the most difficult time in all their lives. a b "Jacqueline Wilson". Children's Laureate (childrenslaureate.org.uk). Booktrust. Retrieved 28 September 2013. The book also features a postscript, authored by Adoption UK offering advice and support to anyone affected by the issues in the novel. Age-Gap Romance: While less of a romance and more of a brief sexual encounter, Laura is only fourteen when she has sex with the seventeen year old Leon. She also has a crush on Daniel, who is around the same age.

Jacqueline Wilson". Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, 2nd ed., 8 vols. Gale Group, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Retrieved 2 January 2010, From 2005 to 2007. Small Role, Big Impact: Leon is barely present throughout the story but is the one who got Laura pregnant. A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy, family trouble and unlikely friendships, set in 1960. Honestly she has done it again. JW will never fail me. This book is set in the 1960s around a girl called Laura (the fact that we share a name is bonus points). Laura becomes pregnant at 14. However, in the 1960s women who are unmarried or young are treated very different to today for becoming pregnant. Laura ends up in a home for women and babies and we follow her story. I won’t give too much away, but obviously there will be a baby in the book at the end! She was only 19 when she married Millar Wilson, a printer who later became a policeman, and 21 when she had her daughter Emma. She and Millar divorced in 2004 and she hasn’t seen him for at least 10 years.Today, she sometimes can’t bear to watch herself if she’s been on a television show. “I just think, ‘oh God, I’m so old!’” Way past the age when women start to become, as she says, invisible. “It’s noticeable in a pub, say, when somebody young and relatively attractive walks by, most men will look up. Somebody old and still relatively attractive walks by, nobody looks up. And it’s not that I feel you should or shouldn’t look up but there is an invisibility thing.” Lea, Richard (8 February 2008). "James Patterson stamps out library competition". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 August 2008. I can understand that feeling, but nobody really minds about crime writers and they mostly don’t go around committing murders,” she observes drily. “If you write fiction, you need an imagination. You have to write about what you’re interested in and have a good stab at things and if you’re not sure what it might feel like to be an entirely different sort of person, it’s a good idea to try to meet people who could help you in some way.”

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