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Jacqueline Wilson says she wouldn't return to Tracy Beaker as an adult

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter at the Hay Festival
Getty Images Dame Jaqueline Wilson wearing a black top and two silver necklaces. She has white cropped hair.Getty Images
Dame Jacqueline Wilson's Picture Imperfect, an adult sequel to her 1999 children's book, The Illustrated Mum, is out in August

Celebrated children's author Jacqueline Wilson has said she "would feel very wary" of writing about her beloved character Tracy Beaker in an adult book because "it would seem inappropriate [as] we would learn about Tracy's sex life".

Dame Jacqueline has touched on Beaker as an adult through the eyes of the character's daughter Jess in her children's books My Mum Tracy Beaker and The Beaker Girls.

But having recently announced Picture Imperfect, an adult sequel to her 1999 children's book, The Illustrated Mum, it doesn't look like an adult book based on Beaker will follow suit.

"I don't want to go there. That's my girl [Tracy] who I made everything happen for," Dame Jacqueline told an audience at the Hay Festival.

She added that she had said "no, I would never do that" before, when planning future writing projects, but noted she had sometimes changed her mind, "so who knows"Eve Dulcie sits inside a in a rooftop restaurant with a skyline in the background. She smiles at the camera. She has blonde mid length hair, which is half pulled back from her face with her bangs loose in her face. " class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/>

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