Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today. I never knew that Destiny and Sunset would be half-sisters and I think that Jacqueline Wilson added a twist to Little Darlings.

Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. She’s an only child with a sickly but devoted mum who constantly tells her she’s the daughter of a famous Rockstar.If you haven’t read this read it =] another one of Jacqueline Wilson’s thrillers i rec commend this book for any age so yea READ ITTT! The fear - of getting it wrong, messing up, of losing your baby, of not being a good mother - all of that is very real either way. Yes, there are tons and tons of retellings about great stories, but I don’t think many people thought of the idea of retelling some gruesome folkloric tales. Destinym aged eleven, is a normal girl living a normal life but her father is Danny Kilman, a rockstar.

Golding offers a fresh, new take on the classic superstition of changelings,which is when a human child is stolen by fairies and replaced with a look-alike fairy child. It’s not a myth that I really focus on intentionally so I was assuming that It must be common knowledge, but maybe it is lesser known than I thought! Much as I'm reluctant to resort to book-marketing cliches, Little Darlings really feels like it could be the thriller of the summer; I've already witnessed some buzzing about it on social media. Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world.

Unless you were previously a carer, the emotional shift that comes with knowing the responsibility falls entirely on you changes you beyond belief. Whilst Destiny lives on a council estate with her single mother in the North of England, Sunset is the daughter of a rock star and a model whose days are filled with photo shoots for trashy magazines and playing with the nanny. An immensely readable novel which handles serious issues – fractured families, the nature of celebrity – with the lightest of touches. When the two girls meet in unlikely circumstances, they find in each other something they've been missing all their lives.

Her writing makes you anxious and jumpy, worried that something will steal out of the shadows to take what’s yours. Jacqueline's books include The Story of Tracy Beaker, which has become a hugely successful BBC TV series; Girls in Love, which together with its two sequels was filmed for ITV television; and Double Act, which she adapted for Channel 4 and which won the Royal TV Society's Best Children's Fiction Award.Destiny aspires to live the life that Sunset has and Sunset wishes she had a peaceful life like Destiny. Quite a few of the chapters open with a selection of these tales to really help this theme cement in your mind and show just how creepy they are. In terms of this being a mystery thriller, the story actually takes quite a predictable path, so what you think is happening at the start is exactly what it turns out to be, however, it’s also ambiguous and leaves the reader asking questions. Influenced perhaps too much by tales of elves and changelings, Lauren slowly becomes convinced that someone – or something – is trying to replace her babies with their own. In 2007 Jacky Daydream was published, an inspirational true story of how a shy schoolgirl became a superstar author.

I think that anyone should read this but remebr not to give up on it as you have to wait until the middle for much to happen. Give me one of yours and I’ll take care of it, You have one of mine and treat it like your own” The woman grasps Lauren’s arm and she struggles to get away, Choose one, said the woman, “choose one of I’ll take them both. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.I loved how the characters had two completely seperate lives, and how somehow they knew they had this amazing connection. On a recent holiday it was only her new-found habit that gave us respite from ‘can we go crab fishing/to the beach/have an ice cream? There are some unsettling interactions between new mother Lauren and a creepy woman who threatens to swap Lauren’s twin babies with her own. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. I enjoyed both of them as characters and wish this had been more of a focus as the majority of the book favours detailing different events that show how incompetent each parent is, which felt dragged out after a while.