I liked this book, it wasn't a bad book, just not my sort of book.
In the end I did manage to predict everything that happened and I found the book a bit slow paced, the same type of conversations and same worries all the way through. I will say one thing though, Ellie has managed to pull of her characters, they were lovable and unique, in fact, so was the plot.

Billie Templar's mum ran away, her nan's going a bit loopy and her dad's off at war. She's looked after by her older brother, Mark, and her aunt, Kirsty. But Billie wants her dad so he can be the carnival king at her school like he always is. She wants him because her sort of friend's dad has just been blown up, losing his legs. Billie doesn't want that to happen to Dad. So she thinks up the plan of staging a military tattoo. She gets together the gymnasts and footballers and scrabble players and flower makers and many more. If she can get the queen to come and watch, then she can send Dad home. Not as easy as she thought. By the time there's a chance of the queen coming, the tattoo's out of control, and soon Billie is called to desperate measures. A lookalike. She orders a lookalike off the internet and she turns up in a scooter and a plastic Asda bag. Soon people start to get suspicious. But then, a black limo pulls up, and one foot steps out, then another, and soon all Billies dreams are coming true . . .

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