![]() She doesnt get any dinner on her first day because she didnt bring the money. Read reviews from real readers and browse our 130000. She meets lots of horrid girls there, including Patty, her enemy. brings you the latest reviews for Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt. She attends St Margarets school, but her father ends up in prison, so she has to work for the Fairy Glen factory. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever.Ī brilliantly gripping wartime story from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson. Opal Plumstead is the main character in Opal Plumstead (novel). And when Opal meets Morgan, Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and heir to Fairy Glen- she believes she's found her soulmate. Opal's world is opened to Mrs Pankhurst, and the fight to give women the right to vote. The best thing about Mrs Roberts? She's a suffragette! Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think. Yet her dreams are shattered when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must abandon school and start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner. Opal Plumstead is fiercely intelligent: a proud scholarship girl, with plans to go to university. She struggles to get along with her other workers, who think she's snobby and stuck up. ![]() Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. ![]() Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. From the beloved children's author of Hetty Feather, Tracy Beaker and Rose Rivers. ![]()
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