The fifth book in Jean Ure's Foster Family series. When Bella arrives to stay with the Fosters, Abi and Sam are determined to be nice to her. Bella's dad is very ill - it must be awful - poor Bella. But it's hard to be sympathetic when Bella is such a boaster. Her parents, her house - even her pedigree pets are better than Abi and Sam's. The girls are trying so hard to be tolerant, but sooner or later something's got to give.
Had her first book published while still in high school, then studied theater at Webber-Douglas in London. Her most well-known work is the Point Crime novel Dance with Death. Others include Plague 99, After the Plague (previously "Come Lucky April"), Big Tom, Family Fan Club and Shrinking Violet, as well as the fantasy The Wizard In the Woods.
Today, Ure is very popular with British female teenage readers with novels such as Shrinking Violet, Family Fan Club and Passion Flower.
Ure has also translated Danish writer Sven Hassel's WWII novels to English.