The Illustrated Mum

Description:

A powerful novel of two sisters who have to cope with living in a very dysfunctional household where their tattoo-crazy mum has real difficulties in coping. A new edition with new cover look and introduction.Dolphin adores her mother: she's got wonderful clothes, bright hair and vivid tattoos all over her body. She definitely lives a colourful life. Dolphin's older sister, Star, also loves her but is beginning to wonder if staying with a mum whose temper can be as flashy as her body-art is the best thing for the girls...

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Family,  Mothers,  Tattooing,  Tattooing in fiction,  Literature,  Single-parent families in fiction,  Single-parent families,  Sisters in fiction,  Fiction,  England in fiction,  Mothers and daughters in fiction,  Mothers and daughters,  Sisters,  Manic-depressive illness,  Manic-depressive illness in fiction,  Mental Depression,  Families,  Children's fiction,  Mothers, fiction,  Family, fiction

Places: England