Mum in love (Polly Price) – Dee Shulman
I had been looking forward to going to France in the Easter holidays for weeks. Admittedly it meant going with Mum and her annoying, yuckily young, French boyfriend, Almond. But I knew we would be staying at Almond’s parents’ place: A CHATEAU! Everyone knows ‘chat’ means ‘cat’ in French – so I couldn’t wait… 2 whole weeks in a houseful of cats! I love animals!
Tragically things NEVER work out as you expect. Instead of a houseful of cats it turned out to be a houseful of Almond’s annoying, totally weird French family. Before I had time to squeak ‘murder,’ I was on the ghastly trail of a heartless criminal. Could I, Polly Price, uncover the truth? Well – not if I was the chief suspect. And not if I starved to death trying to find my way through long, murky corridors to breakfast. I knew I was in a race against time. And I didn’t even have a watch.
Polly Price didn’t think it was possible for her actress mother, Arabella Diamonte, to be any more embarrassing than on the trip to San Francisco last summer. That is, until she agrees to take part in a television program called Celebrity Home Watch and a camera crew arrives at their home to film. Her mother lacks volume control at the best of times, so this is truly a reality TV nightmare—with no escape for Polly!
Polly Price is so embarrassed by her actor mother, who loves to draw attention to herself and hog the limelight. Now Polly’s worst nightmare has come true as her mother heads to America to appear in a play and Polly has to go with her! Not only that, but she’s forced to hang around with the young stars of the show, who aren’t exactly lining up to be her friends.
