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April Showers is such a departure from the other books I have read by Jacqueline Wilson. It deals with much darker issues but it retains her amazing ability to keep the story alive and quick as we don’t know where we will go next. April Showers focuses on April a.k.a the ‘dustbin baby’. We meet April on April fool’s day which also happens to be her fourteenth birthday. After she is given a pair of earrings rather than a mobile phone (much to her disgust!) we travel back through her past. Discovered in a dustbin, April has never had a family although she has thought about her mother many times and is desperate to know why and what happened. As we travel though her past we see the hardships that she has faced and the events that have shaped her to be the person we meet at the beginning of the book. The girl who is desperate to be normal and she plays this role so well sometimes she questions if any of the real April is left. My only criticism of the book is that it finishes very quickly. I felt that it needed another chapter or two to expand on how April felt and how her life changed. This book is a definite stepping stone for younger fans of Wilson into her literature intended for an older audience.

2022-11-14 18:16