Picture Imperfect

THE INSTANT <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br><br><b>Millions grew up loving </b><i><b>The Illustrated Mum</b></i><b>; now you can curl up this festive period and find out what happens next in this joyful adult sequel by the world's favourite comfort author, Jacqueline Wilson!</b><br><br>Dolphin Westward is done putting everyone else first - especially her unpredictable mother, Marigold. But how do you break the habit of a lifetime?<br><br>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.<br><br>It's not long before everything begins to unravel, and her picture-perfect life feels further away than ever.<br><br><i>Faced with losing it all, can she learn to stop chasing perfection and start being herself?</i><br><br><b><u>READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH PICTURE IMPERFECT:</u></b><br><br>‘Jacqueline Wilson is<b> a national treasure</b>! <i>Picture Imperfect</i> is at once beautiful, sad, and uplifting’ – Alice Winn<br><br>'I <b>devoured this entire book in one sitting</b> . . . it catapulted me out of a reading slump' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'There's something<b> so comforting</b> about reading a Jacqueline Wilson book . . . You can just sink into it'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'<i>Picture Imperfect</i> is <b>everything I didn’t know I needed</b>: tender, messy and deeply relatable'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>‘10/10 would recommend to anyone who loved Jacqueline Wilson as a child, and to anyone who's never read her before this is just <b>the perfect novel of 'adult trying to sort their mess of a life out</b>’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'A<b> nostalgic hug </b>from the past'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'It's real, raw and <b>completely relatable</b>’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'I obviously<b> hoovered it up</b>. There's something about the way Jacqueline Wilson writes that gets me <b>racing through every page!</b>'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br>'I <b>absolutely adored </b>diving back into the world of <i>The Illustrated Mum</i>. . . It brought<b> all the nostalgia. I could not put this down</b>'⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐<br><br><br>Instant <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller, August 2025