Opal [Working Title]

The exciting new story from one of the nation's best-loved authors, featuring a brand-new character, Opal, and set during the First World War.


The brilliant new story from bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson, starring Opal Plumstead, who goes to work in a sweet factory against the backdrop of the First World War.

JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known and hugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7. She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commended for the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She was the author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.