Complex sentence: Delilah feels caught between her erratic family life and her loneliness at school: she loves her over-protective mother dearly but wishes for something more; she creates a vision of what her father must be like, as she has never known him.
Split into simpler sentences: Delilah feels caught between her erratic family life and her loneliness at school: she loves her over-protective mother dearly but wishes for something more. She creates a vision of what her father must be like, as she has never known him.