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Shiraz Bailey Wood is back! Having just about recovered from her stint in London with Carrie Draper, Shiraz is prepared to overlook Carrie''s totally out of order flaky behaviour because Carrie''s just talked her dad into paying for two flights to Ibiza in the summer and no one needs a holiday more than Shiraz BW! Or so she thought.... Put it this way, the sleepy town of San Antonio, Ibiza, ain''t gonna know what''s hit it once a few other randoms from Goodmayes have pitched up and caused havoc. Uma''s in, hurrah! But then Wesley of all people decides to bring stupid Sooz away to top up her tan. Not to mention Mrs Diane Wood! Still, Shiraz and Carrie are lovin'' it, even if money is running out and the only jobs on offer seem to be bog cleaning and bottle washing at the local bar ... Will, Uma, Carrie and our Shizza have the holiday of a lifetime? It''s all in the diaries, bruv. Read on!

It''s back to Goodmayes and the cast and characters of the very first Diary of a Chav (Trainers V Tiaras) for this 6th diary from Shiraz, for whom life is about to get just a little bit darker... Shiraz is nearly 19 and has been living away from home for the past few months but is now back in Goodmayes, Essex in her old cell-like bedroom plotting her future. She''s absolutely determined to get to college and get on her way to being a writer, who ACTUALLY GETS PAID this time! She knows she''s going to have to have a few words with Wesley about their future as he''s planning all sorts himself and it isn''t fair. Can she really contemplate a future without her lovely Wesley? But will he ever fit into her new life? Talk about a total quandary! And while she''s mulling that one over her mum Diane drops a massive bombshell on the whole family and Shiraz''s life is suddenly turned upside down. Soon home in Goodmayes seems like the only place to be, sorrounded by everyone she''s grown up with, people she loves to bits...Can Shiraz give up her dreams? Does she have to? Wait and see.

Poppet Montague-Jones is 15, 87th in line to the British throne and soon to inherit a whopping trust fund. Unlike her sister Kitten - legendary wild child and society columnist in London Alive (see Diary of a Chav), Poppet is a troubled and ill-fitting teenager who is at an impressionable age, and doesn''t quite know how to launch herself into the world. Poppet spends much of her time daydreaming and getting bossed about by her flamboyant school friends, Vixen Blaze Brocklehurst and Striker Earhart. Between them, the girls get up to all sorts of high jinks a la St Trinians at school and in their stinkingly rich ''hood'', not giving much thought to their future. They''re rich, so who cares! Poppet''s Mum Saskia has her future in hand anyway: a career in fashion and marriage to nice, loaded, Felix Hayes Burlington across the road. Thing is, Poppet is not entirely sure it''s what she really wants. Isn''t there more to life than charity lunches and yoga? Is Poppet destined for a life of designer grunge and decadence without lifting a finger to earn her own living, or is she brave enough to break out of the mould?

Poppet is back with Kwame, and keeping it a secret from her family and curious best friends Vixen and Striker...But it is not easy having a double life and sneaking out of Hampstead to an estate in Kilburn twice a week....But when Poppet''s mother Jocasta finds out what''s going on, Poppet is shocked at how snobby her ''liberal'' mother is. Poppet knows she''s a lucky girl...she''ll never ever know what it''s like to be poor...But all the money in the world can''t buy you true love...