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Picture Imperfect
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  • Published: 28 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529953152
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352

Picture Imperfect

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Tr. Paperback
2 Sept 2025
EBook
28 Aug 2025
Audiobook
28 Aug 2025
Hardback
28 Sept 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 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529953152
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 352
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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