Solace of the road
By: Siobhan Dowd.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780375849718; 9780375949715
Subjects: Runaways -- Fiction.; Foster home care -- Fiction.; Hitchhiking -- Fiction.; Voyages and travels -- Fiction.; Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.