It’s an especially great day for millennial women, and that’s not just because the sun is shining and iced coffee season is nearly here. One of the UK’s most iconic writers, Jacqueline Wilson, has revealed that she’s publishing a new sequel, Think Again, in her Girls series – nearly 30 years after the first one was released back in 1997.

For many, Wilson represented a typical 00s childhood with Tracy Beaker on TV after school, battered copies of Lola Rose passed around friendship groups and sleepovers hosted with the sole aim of dissecting the teenage messiness of Ellie, Nadine and Magda.

The original four-part Girls series started in 1997 with Girls In Love, followed by Girls Under Pressure (1998), Girls Out Late (1999) and Girls In Tears (2002). Now, over 20 years after the fourth book, we get to dive back into the world of Ellie, Nadine and Magda as they navigate the chaos of adulthood.

The synopsis reads: “Being an adult isn’t quite what Ellie Allard dreamed it would be when she was 14 years old. Though she’s got her beautiful daughter Lottie, lifelong best friends Magda and Nadine and her trusty cat Stella, her love life is non-existent and she feels like she’s been living on auto-pilot, just grateful to be able to afford the rent on her pokey little flat.

But this year, on her birthday, the universe seems to decide it’s time for all that to change – whether Ellie wants it to or not. As she navigates new, exciting and often choppy waters, she’s about to discover that life will never stop surprising you – if only you let it.”

On the adult sequel, Wilson said: “I’ve always wondered whatever happened to Ellie, Magda and Nadine, the teenagers in my Girls series. I’ve decided to find out what they’re up to nowadays. It’s been great fun writing for adults for a change. I think everyone reading Think Again will be surprised.”

It’s safe to say we’ll be counting down the days until we can grab a copy of Think Again to find out what happened to the girls all these years later, aged 40.

Think Again will be published by Transworld in September 2024, while the Girls novels will be reissued by their original publisher, Penguin Random House.

Image: Getty