Friendship across unequal circumstances
Sunset and Destiny come from sharply different homes and find in each other something they have been missing.
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Jacqueline Wilson - Author
This is a contrasting friendship story: one girl has fame and wealth but feels isolated, while the other has a modest home life and an unusual family claim. Their meeting brings those different kinds of absence together.
Jacqueline Wilson's latest guaranteed bestseller shines the spotlight onto the crazy world of celebrity.Sunset lives a life of luxury with her beautiful ex-model mum, her world-famous ex-rocker dad and two little celeb siblings. But life on the red carpet is no compensation for rowing parents, constant nagging, intensive media scrutiny and no real friends.Destiny, on the other hand, is an only child living on a rundown estate with a sickly but devoted mum who constantly tells her that she's really the daughter of a famous former rock star...When the two girls meet in unlikely circumstances, they are surprised to find in each other something they've been missing all their lives...
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a contrasting friendship story: one girl has fame and wealth but feels isolated, while the other has a modest home life and an unusual family claim. Their meeting brings those different kinds of absence together.
Sunset and Destiny come from sharply different homes and find in each other something they have been missing.
Sunset has famous parents and luxury but also media scrutiny, parental arguments and no real friends.
The family situations may merit gentle attention: the girls experience parental conflict, media scrutiny, loneliness and illness affecting Destiny’s family.
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