Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd, Read by Sile Bermingham

Wow....this book was a downer. The Irish/English accent helped, but it wasn't a very happy read. Holly Hogan is running away, and the whole book is an account of her past and what got her where she is. She's running to Ireland to find her mom, but she's been in foster care for years, and we slowly learn the whole story. It's a depressing one and she has some real problems and issues. She can't even be Holly Hogan when she runs away--she wears a blond wig and calls herself Solace. Along the road, she meets some interesting characters, but what kept me listening was the accent and trying to figure out what happened to Holly.

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