This hard back book of 112 pages, " Jellybean " was written by Tessa Duder and published by Oxford University Press in 1985 as a 1st Edition.

14 x 22 cms approx ; light ageing ; good condition.

In all of Rooms Nine and Ten at school, Geraldine told her mother, there wasn't one single other mother who played the cello in a pub. There wasn't even a mother who played the cello full-stop. ' Oh, Jellybean, ' her mother laughed.

Geraldine's mother plays in an orchestra - and in pubs to earn extra money. An only child of a single mother, Geraldine is tired of having to fit in with her mother's busy schedule - and lonely.

At a rehearsal one day she makes a friend, a musician who seems to know more about her than he is willing to let on. As she talks to him she discovers a new ambition : to be a conductor.

The chances of her achieving that seem as remote as the possibility of continuing her new friendship with Gerald.

But a performance of the ballet ' Nutcracker Suite ' changes everything, including her mother's attitude to her.