At a time in life when most people are taking it easy, Jacqueline is a literary powerhouse and shows no sign of slowing down. I also like Chubby because even though the children were quite naughty at times, she didn't mind and she didn't punish them badly. It seemed as if the picture I had in my head of the characters had been projected onto paper and been put in the story. On the train she is sat next to Jessica, a St Agatha's convent girl where they are looked after and taught by nuns to be proper ladies though the other girls on the train from that school are mean to Jessica and Shirley but they still become form friends quickly. There’s an embarrassing selection process where the youngsters are lined up in a hall and strangers choose the children they want to take home.

September, 1939: At the breakout of the Second World War , ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train. When we sit down to chat some weeks after the launch, Jacqueline says she is back to full health and “truly grateful” for her treatment. K posmívajícím se vrstevníkům se asi ani nebudu vyjadřovat, jenom asi poznamenám, že musí mít nějaký problém sami se sebou, nebo fakt nevím, proč se tak hnusně chovají. You haven’t got any stout shoes apart from your Wellingtons, and you’d look a right banana in those, seeing as it’s sunny.It’s just great,” says Jacqueline, 71, who had the operation in December 2014 at the London teaching hospital St George’s in Tooting. I hope there is room and time for their stories to develop into something more as I felt the story ended quite abruptly.

It was very odd seeing Mum putting my washing things, clean nightie, another set of underwear and socks, my smocked dress, my hairbrush, a pack of three hairgrips and a spare ribbon into Dad’s sample case. This book made me think about how important it is that we remind ourselves to be bold and stand tall when Shirley said “I put both my thumbs under my chin and pushed upwards. Must have been incredibly difficult to be separated from your parents at such a young age with no idea whether you'd see them again. I managed to get my first short story published when I was 17 – and I’ve earned my living by writing ever since.

Awkward and shy, she’s one of the last evacuees from her school to be adopted and is finally forced on a wealthy elderly lady and her housekeeper together with two boys similarly rejected. Well, it’s your loss, because you’re allowed to take one toy, and that doll was your best toy but you can’t take her like that – she looks shocking,’ said Mum, tipping everything out of the suitcase helter-skelter on to the floor. I am pretty sure that some things in this book were true such as how they got evacuated to thee country for war though the actual story was friction. This wasn't quite what I was expecting, in a good way, as it told the story of being an evacuee with a different experience than I've seen in other children's books about the same subject. I’d read it three times in the last nine months, and I agreed with Alice that I only liked books with pictures and conversation.

With [creating] characters I find it quite easy because I made up so many imaginary friends when I was a little girl because I didn’t have any siblings,” says the divorced mother of one. This book has lived up to the standards and quality as all Jacqueline Wilson books and I recommend it to all 8-12 year olds. I put my gas-mask case strap over my shoulder, then snapped the case shut and hauled it off the bed and down the stairs, thump, thump, thump. If I had to describe the book in three words I would probably say ˜An excellent read' because it was truly wonderful and I hope to read it again in the future. I’ve had a transplant and I’m a shining example of how wonderful it is that we have the whole transplant system.

I would like to know how many evacuees ran away from their selected homes and how many didn't go home. The book was a very detailed and accurate first-person account of the Second World War, all the way down to the clothes the characters wore. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her! Laura Wright and Collabro performed the song at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London. She usually wears a pleated grey skirt with a white bodice under a cream fairisle jumper, white socks and red patent shoes.

Gave me childhood flashbacks a bit, like Shirley I was a weird and bookish kid given to daydreaming. Někde asi v druhé třetině knihy to trochu vypadalo, že se to bude ubírat detektivním směrem, ale nakonec ne.Now I feel like I'm being a bit insensitive, it's interesting for me but was often sad and horrible for them! And yet nowadays, when we think about it, how many mothers and fathers would actually take their kids to the station and wave goodbye to them without even knowing where they were going, and not even being given an address and not knowing who was going to look after them? This book is a great read and I never got bored once; the thing that makes Wave Me Goodbye such an enjoyable read for me, was Chubby the house maid she isn't like any normal housewife and always has her own opinion which is usually right. I’ve applied for a job at Pendleton’s,’ said Mum, tucking my three books into the sample case and then snapping it shut.