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For the Jacqueline Wilson generation, there’s a new, tongue-in-cheek way to indulge in some nostalgia. With a splash of wry humour and a huge dollop of affection, readers on TikTok have begun to rank her books in order of how “traumatic” they were. “Oh, do they?” the author says, glowing (I think with curiosity rather than delight), before asking, “Which would be the ones they think are the most traumatic?” Before I can respond, the author is gamely taking up the challenge herself. “My Sister Jodie [in which Jodie falls to her death from a tower], I would think that would be one. Vicky Angel [where Vicky is killed by a car and then haunts her best friend Jade as a ghost] is also a worrying one. And probably The Illustrated Mum [a heavily tattooed single mother is sectioned and her children go into foster care]?”
