Solace of the Road
by:
Siobhan Dowd (author)
Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long,...
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Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blonde locks she feels transformed.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385609722 (0385609728)
ASIN: 0385609728
Publish date: 2009-02-05
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Teen,
Travel,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Young Adult Contemporary,
Road Trip,
Fiction
4.5 stars“I was in the middle of a field in Wales with a storm growling in the sky and the cops after me. And all I had to help was a thieving glamour girl who only existed inside my own cracked head.” Having seen many fall into clichéd or melodramatic territory, I tend to be wary of books with plot...
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