Keeping it real
By: Grace Dent
Series: @Diary of a Chav
Publisher: Hodder Children's
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780340970652
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Shiraz Bailey Wood (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: Shiraz is nearly 19 and has been living away from home for the past few months but is now back in Goodmayes, Essex in her old cell-like bedroom plotting her future. She's absolutely determined to get to college and get on her way to being a writer, who ACTUALLY GETS PAID this time! She knows she's going to have to have a few words with Wesley about their future as he's planning all sorts himself and it isn't fair. Can she really contemplate a future without her lovely Wesley? But will he ever fit into her new life? Talk about a total quandary! And while she's mulling that one over her mum Diane drops a massive bombshell on the whole family and Shiraz's life is suddenly turned upside down. Soon home in Goodmayes seems like the only place to be, surrounded by everyone she's grown up with, people she loves to bits...Can Shiraz give up her dreams? Does she have to? Wait and see.