SuitabookFamily separation and loyalty
Floss stays with her father when her mother’s family moves away temporarily, and she misses her mother.
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Jacqueline Wilson - Author
A family story about Floss’s choice to live with her father, whose failing café brings financial strain and upheaval. School friendships add another thread, and the ending is open rather than fully settled.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA family story about Floss’s choice to live with her father, whose failing café brings financial strain and upheaval. School friendships add another thread, and the ending is open rather than fully settled.
Floss stays with her father when her mother’s family moves away temporarily, and she misses her mother.
Expect serious money problems and threatened homelessness, as well as bullying and adult drunken or bawdy behaviour.
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.