Marigold in The Illustrated Mum would count as one, although subverted when Dolphin later discovers Marigold is actually a natural brunette. Always Identical Twins: Ruby and Garnet. Averted in The Butterfly Club where triplets Tina, Maddie and Phil are not identical because Tina is considerably smaller than the other two.

Love Lessons is presented as one from Prue's perspective, because she doesn't end up with Mr. Raxberry, although adults reading the book would consider it a better ending for her than the alternative. Tracy and Cam concoct a 'charm to be with a loved one on a festive occasion' for Christmas. Tracy neglects to mention her mother's name during it and ends up spending the day with Cam. She later wonders if she was Cam's loved one and if the charm actually did work. Lolly in The Dream Palace dearly loved her late father and fitted this trope when he was alive. In the present day, she's desperate to hang onto her memories of her relationship with him, and hangs around a now-disused hotel where he used to take her for tea. Subverted when Greg tries to help her re-live a day trip she took with her father, causing her to remember that he wasn't so perfect after all.Driven to Suicide - April's adoptive mother in Dustbin Baby, Tina in Falling Apart, and Tanya's mother in Bad Girls. 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. Amber's mother isn't at all happy with this idea. In The Dream Palace Lolly has an affair with Greg: an adult who's illegally "squatting" in an abandoned building and walks out on his previous girlfriend for her. He then stabs and seriously wounds her stepfather, forcing Lolly to go on the run with Greg, who suggests she become a prostitute to bring in money. The situation becomes so unbearable for Lolly that even though she still believes she loves Greg, she ends up handing him over to the police just to be able to return to a normal life. Jerkass: Sarah is a rude, snarky woman who doesn't even try to interact with her stepchildren, and puts them down. Broken Pedestal: Phoebe in The Primrose Railway Children looks up to her dad, but she becomes disillusioned and angry when she finds out he's in prison and doesn't even want to visit him.

Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. Martha in The Longest Whale Song repeatedly taunts Ella that her mother will be in a coma indefinitely but after seeing how her mother and stepfather treat her, Ella realises that she's being horrible because she's unhappy.Be Careful What You Wish For: At the end of Rose Rivers, it is being arranged for Rose to go to boarding school and get the education she wanted, but at the cost of losing her family. Even though Rose is getting what she wanted, she loses what she had. Perry in The Primrose Railway Children sometimes comes across as younger than his little sister Phoebe in some of his behaviours, i.e, demanding to do things right away, repeating sentences over and over, having a meltdown if he gets overwhelmed or completely failing to grasp the danger of entering a tunnel while a train is coming through it. However much of this behaviour is consistent with him being on the autism spectrum and in other respects he can come across as quite mature for his age.