Bibliograph

Opal Plumstead, Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt

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Opal Plumstead, Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Opal Plumstead

Responsibility statement

Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Summary

Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and 14-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up. But she idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever

Target audience

juvenile

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