THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Millions grew up loving The Illustrated Mum; now you can curl up this festive period and find out what happens next in this joyful adult sequel by the world's favourite comfort author, Jacqueline Wilson!
Dolphin Westward is done putting everyone else first - especially her unpredictable mother, Marigold. But how do you break the habit of a lifetime?
When she meets Lee, the kind single dad next door, she glimpses the wholesome family life she’s always wanted. Then Joel crashes into her world - a rugged, magnetic actor who makes her feel truly seen - and suddenly Dolphin finds herself torn between two very different futures.
It's not long before everything begins to unravel, and her picture-perfect life feels further away than ever.
Faced with losing it all, can she learn to stop chasing perfection and start being herself?
READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH PICTURE IMPERFECT:
‘Jacqueline Wilson is a national treasure! Picture Imperfect is at once beautiful, sad, and uplifting’ – Alice Winn
'I devoured this entire book in one sitting . . . it catapulted me out of a reading slump' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'There's something so comforting about reading a Jacqueline Wilson book . . . You can just sink into it'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Picture Imperfect is everything I didn’t know I needed: tender, messy and deeply relatable'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘10/10 would recommend to anyone who loved Jacqueline Wilson as a child, and to anyone who's never read her before this is just the perfect novel of 'adult trying to sort their mess of a life out’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A nostalgic hug from the past'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'It's real, raw and completely relatable’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I obviously hoovered it up. There's something about the way Jacqueline Wilson writes that gets me racing through every page!'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I absolutely adored diving back into the world of The Illustrated Mum. . . It brought all the nostalgia. I could not put this down'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Instant Sunday Times bestseller, August 2025
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Publication Date: 28-08-2025
Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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