Awards
Costa Children's Book Award
2009 Shortlist
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Holly is done with social workers and key workers and secure units, she's done with reviews and rules and reports and she's done with her foster parents. She's ditching her old life as Holly Hogan and she's heading off. She puts on her blonde wig, blows herself a kiss and flutters her eyelashes. And now she's ready. She's Solace, Solace of the road, and she's going to find her mam.
Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband Geoff before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. Solace of the Road is her fourth novel for David Fickling Books. Her first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the 2007 Branford Boase Award and Eilis Dillon Award. The London Eye Mystery won the Bisto Book of the Year Award, and the 2007 NASEN and TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. All royalties from her books go to the Siobhan Dowd Trust, a charity set up to support the joy of reading for disadvantaged young people.
Judges: "We were captivated by this beautifully-written, poignant and ultimately heart-warming story."
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