Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely successful children’s author and has won a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2002 Jacqueline received an OBE for services to literacy in schools. She was the highest-borrowed author in British libraries in the last decade.
Lesley Dunlop, born 10 March 1956, is a British actress. She is best known for her roles as Anna Kirkwall in Where the Heart Is and her current role as Brenda Walker in Emmerdale. Daughter of the television writer Pat Dunlop, she began her career as a child actress in the 1970s and never looked back. Lesley Dunlop has two daughters with the actor Christopher Guard.