Peony Pinker – serie

Peony Pinker is fed up with her family. Her mum''s workinglong hours setting up her gardening business and her dad isn''t pulling hisweight around the house, so they''re arguing all the time. Her big sister,Primrose, is stressed about her exams and taking it out on everyone elseincluding her lovely boyfriend Matt. Peony''s Gran tells her you can choose yourfriends but not your family; as you can''t have the family you want, you have tolearn to want the family you''ve got. ''Not possible!'' thinks Peony. But Gran is sure she''ll thinkof something. As most of Gran''s ideas go horribly wrong, Peonyknows there will be even more trouble ahead...

Everyone in Peony Pinker''s family wants something. Her dad,a sports reporter on the local paper, wants to get out of doing the problempage while the agony aunt is missing; her mum wants to stop working at thegarden centre where all the plants keep dying; and her big sisterPrimrose wants to be called Annabel. What Peony wants most in the world - evenmore than she wants a dog - is to stop Primrose''s nasty new best friend Biancafrom being horrible to her. When Mr Kaminski next doortells them the secret of how to get what you want, Peony decides it''s time toput a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she really wants?

Peony Pinker is not ''cool''. She likes animals and messing about, notfitness routines and celebrity news. But when Dad becomes a celebrityagony aunt, the coolest girls in school invite Peony to join theirgroup. Now she''s watching the right films and doing the rightactivities to fit in... and she hasn''t got time for her old friends anymore. But is the ''cool'' crowd really where Peony wants to be? A funny,thought-provoking story with a subtle self-help theme.

It''s winter and the Pinkers are out of shape - so Dad decides to usethe wholefamily to test out his ideas for a new fit-in-four weeks diet book. Butafter a few weeks of earlymorning runs and cardboard flavoured ready meals, (meaning Peony needschips and double helpings of pudding at lunch every day to make up)Peony''s become so unfit can barely walk up thehill home. And she''s supposed to be climbing Mount Snowdon in just afew weeks! Can Granget the family back on track with some wise words and common sense?Hilarious family comedy with a self-help twist.

Everyone in Peony Pinker''s family wants something. Her dad,a sports reporter on the local paper, wants to get out of doing the problempage while the agony aunt is missing; her mum wants to stop working at thegarden centre where all the plants keep dying; and her big sisterPrimrose wants to be called Annabel. What Peony wants most in the world - evenmore than she wants a dog - is to stop Primrose''s nasty new best friend Biancafrom being horrible to her. When Mr Kaminski next doortells them the secret of how to get what you want, Peony decides it''s time toput a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she really wants?