{"first_publish_date": "January 15, 2001", "key": "/works/OL35575W", "title": "The Illustrated Mum", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL19365A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [2053305, 8783203, 6791290, 244686, 8761034, 2137586, 3260117, 13712403, 13712410], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "A powerful novel of two sisters who have to cope with living in a very dysfunctional household where their tattoo-crazy mum has real difficulties in coping. A new edition with new cover look and introduction.Dolphin adores her mother: she's got wonderful clothes, bright hair and vivid tattoos all over her body. She definitely lives a colourful life. Dolphin's older sister, Star, also loves her but is beginning to wonder if staying with a mum whose temper can be as flashy as her body-art is the best thing for the girls..."}, "subject_places": ["England"], "subjects": ["Juvenile fiction", "Family", "Mothers", "Tattooing", "Tattooing in fiction", "Literature", "Single-parent families in fiction", "Single-parent families", "Sisters in fiction", "Fiction", "England in fiction", "Mothers and daughters in fiction", "Mothers and daughters", "Sisters", "Manic-depressive illness", "Manic-depressive illness in fiction", "Mental Depression", "Families", "Children's fiction", "Mothers, fiction", "Family, fiction"], "genres": ["/tags/OL174T"], "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T07:52:55.567264"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-10-03T21:59:19.956736"}}