Product Description

A humorous, poignant and heartwarming story of four girls and their exasperating parents. Reissued in the Jean Ure branding. "People always fall out after they're married. I'm going to stay single." Jasmine, Laurel, Rose and Daisy. Four very different sisters, four very different attitudes! As if living with each other wasn't bad enough, living with their parents is worse -- particularly parents who are both actors. Please! But after the Great Row, the girls find themselves living with Mum, while Dad has gone to America to find work. How are the sisters going to achieve their own personal ambitions: become an actress, model, writer, vet! when they can't even achieve their joint ambition -- to reunite parents who are on different continents?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207563 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 158 pages

Review
Passion Flower 'A funny and realistic read -- we loved it.' Mizz Pumpkin Pie 'Pumpkin Pie has the heroine I've been waiting for.' Times Shrinking Violet Grown-ups love Bridget Jones' diary, but youngsters will adore Violet Alexander's. Liverpool Echo !the story is timeless, the descriptions of the girls and their relationship spot on and it does a great job of selling the empowering nature of language and story. Books for Keeps Excellent for any nine-up and will almost certainly lead to an addiction to Ure. Observer Becky Bananas 'The writing transcends any trace of heaviness.' Guardian The Secret Life of Sally Tomato 'Rhymes, sauciness, letters, irony, comedy, comic characters! a proper little turn-on for boys. A must-buy book.' Books for Keeps

From the Back Cover
"People always fall out after they're married. I'm going to stay single."

Laurel, Jasmine, Rose and Daisy: four very different sisters, four very different attitudes! If living with each other is difficult enough, living with their parents is even worse - especially as they're both actors.

But then comes the Great Row and Dad leaves home. Suddenly the sisters have an even greater goal - to reunite their stubborn parents. But is this the impossible dream?

About the Author
Jean Ure was born in Surrey and wrote her first novel when she was six years old. She spent her teenage years writing and had her first book published when she was sixteen. Jean lives in a three-hundred-year-old house in the centre of Croydon with her husband and their family of rescued dogs and cats.

Customer Reviews

A good read!
I enjoyed this book. It's like it says on the cover - a "Little Women" for today! It stars four sisters. There's Laurel (who is the equivalent of Little Women's Meg) Jazz (Jo) Daisy (Beth) and Rose (Amy). Laurel's the oldest, the one who's obsessed with fashion. Then there's Jazz, the heroine of the story, who wants to be an actress. Daisy, the little, innocent one who everyone loves. And the youngest is Rose - and she's the one part of the book I don't like. In Little Women, the youngest sister, Amy, was slightly stuck-up and self-absorbed, but a loveable character really. She might have burnt her sister's most cherished item, but she was sorry, and if you saw it from her point of view you could feel sorry for her too. Rose is nothing like that. She's clever, annoying and thinks she's better than everyone else. She ruins everything, but you don't feel any sympathy to her in the way she acts. I didn't like her, and I felt I was supposed to. I think it's important to like all the main characters. But apart from that, it's a great book! The story is similar to that of Little Women, but not identical. The girls' mother is an actress, and is finding it hard to find work. She's split up from her husband, also an actor, who Jazz and co. don't see very often. The book is basically about the girls' attempts to get their parents back together. It's not Jean Ure's best, and it's not as good as Little Women, but it's very good and definitely worth a read.

Good read.
This Jean Ure book is a really good read. It is about four girls: Laurel, Jasmine, Rose and Daisy. Their parents are actors, but they have broken up and the girls want to get their parents back together again. It is funny, exciting and one of those books you do not want to put down, until you have finished it.

A good read
This is a very good book by a great author. It's about something that a lot of children have to go through, parents divorsing. The girlS' mum is an actress and their dad is an actor. They break up after an argument. I think that this book is a must-read for Jean Ure fan's. So why only four stars? Because i think that the plot is slightly predictable in parts. However, i still think it's a very good book.