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 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.

A perfectly constructed road trip of a novel for older children from acclaimed author Siobhan Dowd.

Alison Reid has performed regularly on stage with the RSC, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Family Reunion, Tales of Ovid and Warwickshire Testimony. Her TV credits include Dalziel and Pascoe, Neverwhere and The Heart of Me.