Jacqueline Wilson ‘very wary’ of writing grownup Tracy Beaker novel

Jacqueline Wilson has mentioned she would really feel “very wary” about writing an grownup novel about Tracy Beaker “because it would seem inappropriate that we would learn about her sex life”.

Last yr the cherished youngsters’s creator revealed her first novel for adults because the 1970s. Think Again was once a sequel to her Girls collection for youths, which was once revealed between 1998 and 2002, and revisited its protagonist Ellie, who within the new ebook is popping 40.

It was a bestseller, resonating with lovers who grew up with Ellie and her buddies. Wilson has since introduced a 2d grownup sequel, due out in August, this time revisiting her 1999 youngsters’s ebook The Illustrated Mum.

Writing those sequels “gives me pleasure”, Wilson informed the target market on the Hay pageant in Powys. But even supposing she plans to jot down extra, she mentioned Beaker, her most renowned personality, was once not likely to be a subject matter.

Wilson mentioned Beaker had grow to be a lot larger than simply the nature she created, in large part because of the preferred TV collection in response to the novels. The feisty, curly haired heroine manner a super deal to Wilson in my opinion, too: “She’s my girl that made everything happen for me.”

So whilst she was once glad to jot down about Beaker as an grownup from the point of view of her daughter, Jess, writing a couple of adult Tracy does no longer attraction as it will contain writing about her intercourse existence. “I don’t want to go there,” the 79-year-old creator mentioned.

However, Wilson did upload that over time she had discovered to not say “I would never do that”. In two or 3 years’ time – “if I’ve got them!”, the creator joked – “something or other” may make her suppose: “Ah, I could do it this way,” she mentioned. “So who knows?”

Wilson mentioned she did know which of her former characters was once subsequent to be revisited in an grownup ebook, however she hadn’t began writing it but and her publishers wouldn’t permit her to mention who it was once. She mentioned she was hoping the ebook could be out subsequent yr, “and I hope it will be a good choice”.

She stated that some other people may suppose she was once best taking up those grownup initiatives as a result of she “can’t get any new ideas”, however she insisted that was once no longer true. “But I do like to go back,” she mentioned. “It’s a kind of literary Friends Reunited.”

During the Hay match, Wilson expressed fear that 12 of her novels had it seems that been used to coach AI fashions. “Authors are completely unable to monitor what happens,” and “certainly don’t give permission for that,” she mentioned.

However, she mentioned she took convenience from discovering that after her spouse’s brother-in-law requested AI to jot down a tale for his daughter within the taste of Jacqueline Wilson, “it was just unbearably awful. So I hope anyone who likes my books could not be happy with an AI version.”