SuitabookLiving between separated parents
Andy moves between her mother’s and father’s homes while wishing for her parents to be one family again.
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Jacqueline Wilson - Author
This is an emotionally focused family story about living between two homes, adjusting to step-siblings and feeling let down by adults. Andy’s toy rabbit provides a child’s perspective on instability and comfort.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an emotionally focused family story about living between two homes, adjusting to step-siblings and feeling let down by adults. Andy’s toy rabbit provides a child’s perspective on instability and comfort.
Andy moves between her mother’s and father’s homes while wishing for her parents to be one family again.
Both parents have new partners, and Andy must navigate five step-siblings, including difficult relationships and different conditions in each home.
Andy carries Radish, her toy rabbit, for comfort, and the plot reaches a crisis when she loses the rabbit in a garden.
Pay attention to Andy’s changing feelings towards both homes, the adults’ quarrelling and the different treatment she receives. The family tensions may feel recognisable or upsetting for readers with similar experiences.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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