History Literature / AwfulAuntie

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Even after she defeats her Aunt Alberta, Stella can't keep living at Saxby Hall by herself until she reaches her age of majority. Until then she is put into a well-intentioned but overcrowded orphanage [[spoiler: until she suggests using Saxby Hall to house all the orphans instead.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Aunt Alberta intended to have Stella killed along with her parents. When it turns out she needs Stella alive in order to sign the house over to Alberta she has no qualms torturing her niece into it. Later it turns out she deliberately killed Soot when she realised he was her long-lost brother.]]

** Stella is said to have broken every bone in her body due to a car accident that killed her parents, yet she can still move all her limbs and speak. In reality, if she had broken all her bones, her cervical would've been snapped, rendering her quadriplegic. In addition, her skull would've also taken a strong impact, rendering her in a vegetative state and therefore unable to respond to any stimuli, let alone speak.
*** In fact, Stella turns out to only be in bandages as she was being kept captive. Still, considering the damaged state of the car, it is implausible that Stella would not be quadriplegic.

* InvisibleToAdults: Children can see ghosts until they turn thirteen and become teenagers. [[spoiler: When Stella reaches her thirteenth birthday, she is unable to see Soot ever again.]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Aunt Alberta's gambling has squandered the family fortune and left Saxby Hall in a state of disrepair. Stella's father has taken steps to ensure the deeds to the house stay out of her hands as consequence.
* InterclassFriendship: Stella, the present Lady Saxby, and Soot, a chimney sweep. This poses as a stumbling block to their friendship initially but they soon overcome it.

* OrphanageOfFear: The orphanage Soot grew up in. The orphanage Stella ends up at is slightly better, run but a kind woman but made miserable by its poor and overcrowded state. [[spoiler: Stella offers Saxby Hall as a new residence, turning it into an OrphanageOfLove still in use in the present day.]]

* InvisibleToGrownups: Children can see ghosts until they turn thirteen and become teenagers. [[spoiler: When Stella reaches her thirteenth birthday, she is unable to see Soot ever again.]]
* ImpoverishedPatricians: Aunt Alberta's gambling has squandered the family fortune and left Saxby Hall in a state of disrepair. Stella's father has taken steps to ensure the deeds to the house stay out of her hands as consequence.

* InvisibleToGrownUps: Children can see ghosts until they turn thirteen and become teenagers. [[spoiler: When Stella reaches her thirteenth birthday, she is unable to see Soot ever again.]]
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: The long missing Herbert Saxby turns out to be Soot.]]

* InvisibleToGrownups: Children can see ghosts until they turn thirteen and become teenagers. [[spoiler: When Stella reaches her thirteenth birthday, she is unable to see Soot ever again.]]

** Aunt Alberta apparently taught Wagner, an owl, to urinate in a urinal, although birds do not urinate the way mammals do.

Awful Auntie is a book by Creator/DavidWalliams, who also wrote Mr. Stink. The story follows Stella, a 13-year-old girl who lost her parents in a car accident, and her emotionally abusive Aunt Alberta.

** Stella is said to have broken every bone in her body, as a result of a car accident that killed her parents, yet she can still move all her limbs and speak. In reality, if she had broken all her bones, her cervical would've been snapped, rendering her quadriplegic. In addition, her skull would've also taken a strong impact, rendering her in a vegetative state and therefore unable to respond to any stimuli, let alone speak.