Cliffhanger (Biscuit Barrel, 2)

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Freudian Excuse: Selma from The Butterfly Club is a bully because her mother and stepfather abuse her. In Queenie, Elsie's mother neglected her to go out partying, leading to Elsie being taken to an orphanage and later adopted by her grandmother.

G-Rated Sex - Occurs in some of the author's earlier novels aimed at teens (such as Falling Apart and The Dream Palace). In Lily Alone, Lily's mother is deliberately neglectful and leaves Lily (who is only eleven years old) alone at home to take care of her three preschool-aged siblings. Cool Aunt: Although she's more of a Cool Godmother, Coral from Love Frankie takes on this role to Frankie and her sisters when she comes back to the UK. Love Father, Love Son - the title character in Amber has a short relationship with her mother's ex-boyfriend, who believes Amber is pregnant (though he's not the father), and wants to marry her and raise the baby together. This apparently happened due to having so much guilt about shooting another man that he kept seeing it, so he attempted to blind himself.Driven to Suicide - April's adoptive mother in Dustbin Baby, Tina in Falling Apart, and Tanya's mother in Bad Girls. She's named after her mother ("May" is an anagram of her mother's name, Amy); has her mother's old bedroom, furniture, books, and other belongings; and is pushed to become an artist because that was Amy's ambition in life. This trope causes her to use a minor accident at the pool as an excuse to quit diving so that she can attend parties and hang out with boys like a regular girl of her age. Once Pearl reads The Secret Garden, she ends up reading two more books that feature protagonists similar to Colin who learn to walk after being confined to a wheelchair for a long time.

She looks out for Jess and is very understanding when she gets popular after Tracy starts dating Sean and helping her after they break up. The show however, gives a small introduction in the first episode before focusing entirely on her current life in the hospital.Occasionally she also sometimes puts Jayni into the role of an adult, with Jayni describing her as trying to make her be the mum. People assume India from Secrets is this, but she usually averts it, noting that she plays it straight only when defending Anne Frank's diary against the girls in her class. Vicky Angel is much more explicit about this, as Jade consistently fawns over Vicky even when she's dead and talks about her the way someone would talk about their soul mate. The first book has Jem mentioning that his teacher whipped Janet, a friend of his, because she had trouble getting her ds and bs to face the right way.