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Picture Imperfect
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  • Published: 28 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857507631
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00

Picture Imperfect

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2 Sept 2025
Hardback
28 Sept 2025
EBook
28 Aug 2025
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28 Aug 2025
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An adult sequel to beloved fan-favourite children’s novel The Illustrated Mum.

‘Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who’s not very well. She says she’s called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?’

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?
  • Published: 28 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780857507631
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00
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About the author

Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.

As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children's Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame.

Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.

Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.

As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children’s Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children’s Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame.

Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.

Find out more about Jacqueline and her books at www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk

JW

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Praise for Picture Imperfect

Praise for Jacqueline Wilson

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A read-in-a-day comfort book.

Independent

Nuanced and refreshing...beautifully told.

Guardian

This story offers grown-ups what Wilson has long offered teenagers: comfort, sanity and delight in the ordinary.

Daily Mail

Jacqueline Wilson taps into the joys and pains of women everywhere.

Dawn O'Porter

Wilson knocks it out of the park once again...a moving story that is as fun to read as it is meaningful.

Alice Winn

She is a national treasure.

i News

Realistic, sharp eyed...I loved it and didn’t want it to end.

Katie Fforde

‘Jacqueline Wilson is a national treasure! Picture Imperfect is at once beautiful, sad and uplifting.’

Alice Winn

Praise for Picture Imperfect

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‘Jacqueline Wilson is a national treasure! Picture Imperfect is at once beautiful, sad and uplifting.’

Alice Winn
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