Honorary Uncle: Mona in Dancing The Charleston considers Mr Benjamin one. He is eventually revealed to be her real uncle. Jailbait Taboo: Some of the other girls in Baby Love are likely to have gotten their children this way, but Sarah in particular tells Laura that her baby's father was a Sunday School teacher. Tragically, she believes she made him do it because he was attracted to her and prays every night to make sure no other men are attracted to her. She may be at the age of consent, but the attitudes of the time make it this. In Falling Apart, Jan is strongly suggested to be a lesbian. Simon even admits he accepted a bet to ask out either her or Tina, but chose Tina because there's no way Jan would ever accept.

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When family moves to the college, Jodie is grumpy and says that she is only joining everyone else because she needs to look after Pearl. Once they reach their destination, Miss French, the school secretary, comes to meet them at the gate. The family seems to like her because of Miss French's friendly nature. On their first night at the school, they meet Mr Wilberforce, the Headmaster, as well as his wheelchair-using wife Mrs Wilberforce. They eat dinner in the Wilberforces' bungalow where Miss French is also an invited guest.A very interesting aversion in Clover Moon: On Clover's first night at the Home, the other girls pour water over her mattress. Clover changes the sheets in the middle of the night, but then becomes worried she might wet it, but doesn't. Polly from Hetty Feather is particularly kind, proper and sensitive, contrasted with fiery ambitious Hetty - in fact, her sensitivity is the catalyst to their friendship. Several of Wilson's other heroines also have dead mothers, including Verity ( The Cat Mummy) and Ruby and Garnet ( Double Act.) Tracy Beaker, who was abandoned by her mother, may count as well, and Allison in The Other Side whose mother is mentally ill and goes into hospital at the start of the book. In The Suitcase Kid, Andy's stepfather Bill is likened to a baboon, with his hairy body and squashed, monkey-like face; Andy even thinks he has a large, red posterior like a baboon.

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Baby Love makes many comparisons between Laura's mother and Wilson's mother, including the whole class systems, her paying for Laura's glasses to have "fancy upswept frames" and even working similar hours. This may be subconscious, as Laura is a teenager around the same time as Wilson (they were both fourteen in 1960, when the story takes place). Hopeless with Tech: Quite a few characters in these novels are, presumably because it's not the author's strong suit either, though in some cases it's justified, as in Love Lessons, Prudence explains her father is ridiculously old-fashioned and can barely stand having a phone, let alone a T.V or computer.

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Downer Ending - Not unheard of, particularly in My Sister Jodie, even if the birth of May adds a note of hope. Another book not immune to this was Lily Alone: whilst the books ends with Lily claiming that "we're all going to be together, very, very soon", just how accurate her statement is is left extremely ambiguous. Especially given the fact that Kate, Lily and her siblings mother is arrested for both child neglect and credit card fraud, so social services might not trust her to be a parent. My Beloved Smother - Mandy in Bad Girls has one. Mary in Take a Good Look has a grandmother who won't let her do anything (use scissors, go to a nearby shop, or even get out of bed while she's recovering from a cold) because Mary is partially sighted. Sylvie in Kiss believes she's in love with her friend Carl and that they will get married when they grow up. As they become teenagers, Sylvie clings to her image of him, unable to understand that he's changing as a person and has fallen for a guy. Dancing The Charleston has an example: Mona's "aunt" is really her mother and just pretended to be an aunt to cover up her illegitimate pregnancy.