Style
Wilson's stories have greater choice than most children's books, including such difficult topics as abuse, grief, divorce, foster care and mental illness. Her prose is often interspersed with ink drawings by illustrator Nick Sharratt, who also designs the covers for her books.
She usually writes first person narrative but has occasionally experimented with alternating viewpoints, as in Secrets, The Lottie Project, Little Darlings and Double Act.
She says: " I want to write to every age group, in a way that can prepare them for what happens in the real world, and raise the awareness levels of many life changing situations. I want to be a friend, really."
Wilson, Melvin Burgess, and others have made "social realism" fashionable, Julia Eccleshare wrote in 2001 obituary of Winifred Cawley. Simply to feature "children from less affluent homes" had been almost unknown in the 1950s —when Wilson was a child reader.
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