Rose Rivers (World of Hetty Feather)

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I remember reading Hetty Feather ten years ago not long after it was published, and her brief reappearance, along with Wilson's writing in general, made me feel nostalgic for my cousin's box room where we used to hunch over books with endless cups of tea. The relationship with Paris Walker and the age gap was also very uncomfortable considering she's 13?

That is meant to be a deadly secret, but I’m actually rather proud to have a father who was once a criminal. Rose described her life while growing up and meeting others who were less privileged than herself, such as Clover who was brought as a maid from off the streets. They would take me further and further away, until I’d danced the length and breadth of Britain, and I’d end up dying of exhaustion climbing a Scottish mountain or tumbling down some Welsh waterfall.She knows her father is also a talented artist though he once had a love whom posed for a portrait which her mother detests. Miss Rayner had been poor, with elderly parents, and when they both died she’d had to scrape a living as a governess. I loved the brother-sister relationship with Rupert, and found it quite amusing with the twists and turns. Something I found interesting about it was that the lower class and upper class are friends, something unusual for the times.

Another in the Hetty Feather series, with - brace yourselves now - a headstrong young girl who doesn't like being told what to do! She struggles to make friends, especially with those of a similar social standing, eventually she befriends Clover moon who works for her family as a nursery maid. Like Hetty, Rose feels her life is rigid and dull with all the rules people place upon her despite her wealth.Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since.