Jacqueline Wilson: Young care leavers thought Tracy Beaker should be more aspirational | Donna Ferguson

The children’s author on why she made her now grownup eponymous character more successful in lifeWhen the children’s author Jacqueline Wilson met a group of care leavers in Scotland late last year, something magical happened.Wilson was already in the middle of writing a new novel about Tracy Beaker, the eponymous hero of four best-selling books about a fierce and funny girl living in a fictional children’s home. Tracy is now in her 30s and with a daughter of her own. Wilson say