The Diamond Girls is a children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson. The protagonist and narrator is Dixie Diamond, the youngest (at the start of the novel) in a family of four sisters, who all have different fathers. Their mother Sue, pregnant with her fifth child, which she believes to be a boy, decides to move them from their domicile on a council estate to a larger council house on the "Planet Estate." All her children are unhappy about this, especially the oldest, Martine, whose boyfriend Tony lives next door. As an avid believer in astrology, tarot cards, and destiny, Sue believes she knows her baby is going to be a boy, and that, regardless of her daughters' opinions, moving will be the best thing for the family. The book was written after Wilson was reading a newspaper article about a well-known politician's least favourite books. The Illustrated Mum, one of her previous works appeared in this list, because the girls had different fathers. This angered Wilson, who decided to write The Diamond Girls in response, despite the girls having different fathers, they still all live well together. Meanwhile, there is a sub-plot about six-year-old Mary, a girl who comes from a more conventional upper-middle-class family, who turns out to be being mistreated. Source: Wikipedia (en)