- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: David Fickling Books (5 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 038560971X
- ISBN-13: 978-0385609715
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 361,021 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Solace of the Road has it all really: grit, pathos, humour, sharp observation, and a central character who catches your heart and doesn't let it go. [A] Heartbreaking road trip novel with an unforgettable central character. Moments of intense pathos combine with humour to create a book of tremendous quality. Highly recommended. thebookbag.co.uk 20081215 An amazing book for those who love a road trip story with gritty drama and great laughs woven in. Stoke on Trent Sentinel Series 20090404 ... a memorably touching story with a suitably emotional ending Guardian This page-turner invests mundane experience and every-day language with the resonance of poetry Sunday Times For readers more at home with awkward reality than sentimentality, Solace of the Road has a lot to offer. Siobhan Dowd meets every challenge with the authority of a born writer Independent ... unexpectedly life affirming, wise and mature The Times ... this gritty, realistic novel which deploys Dowd's talent for humour, will appeal to the older teenage reader Daily Telegraph Real, touching, at times gritty, but laced with humour throughout it will delight teenage and adult readers alike Irish Post
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The mesmerising tale of Holly, who flees her foster-home life and, taking on the persona of Solace, finds herself in a road-trip adventure.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I literally could not put this book down. every night i would read several more chapters than i had time for because i just needed to know what would happen next! it is not even the sort of book i would normally read, i only read it because i had seen a good review and decided to give it a try. i had also read a couple of Siobhan Dowd's other books.
throughout the book i just wanted to hug the main character. i really felt like i was on the road trip with her, although with benefit of age and experience i could see the road ahead and knew she was headed for a crash. i think i found it almost as hard to face her painful past as she did. although it was a rough journey it was also a cathartic one (for both of us!)
Solace of the Road is sad, funny, frightening, surprising and enlightening. i would recommend it to anyone who has ever been in care, or had children, or been a teenager!
In my opinion this is a perfect novel. Siobhan Dowd was a brilliant author and her death is a sad, sad loss to us all.
throughout the book i just wanted to hug the main character. i really felt like i was on the road trip with her, although with benefit of age and experience i could see the road ahead and knew she was headed for a crash. i think i found it almost as hard to face her painful past as she did. although it was a rough journey it was also a cathartic one (for both of us!)
Solace of the Road is sad, funny, frightening, surprising and enlightening. i would recommend it to anyone who has ever been in care, or had children, or been a teenager!
In my opinion this is a perfect novel. Siobhan Dowd was a brilliant author and her death is a sad, sad loss to us all.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
What a sad loss to the world of adolescent/young-adult literature is Siobhan Dowd's death. Her writing is simple, but profound. The readers journey is as turbulent and irritating as that of the protagonist. It had me feeling impatient and irritated with this adolescent just as I would if she were my own teen. When the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is Holly's life is revealed to her firmly sealed memory, the reader reels from the impact. I will read Siobhan's books over and over and hope that some of her unusual insight into her characters will seep into me by osmosis. I grieve for my loss of a favourite author I discovered too late and who died too early. Wendy age 60
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Solace of the Road is one of the best books I've read this year. I started it on a train journey and couldn't stop reading it. It's about a young girl called Holly who is adopted and unhappy in her foster family. She finds a wig and transforms into a completely new person - Solace. Holly/Solace decide to go on a journey to find her mum and also to hopefully find a bit more about who she really is. However its not as easy to run away as Holly/Solace thinks, as she has to deal with some difficult people and issues along the way! This book is about some sad issues but they are written about with great sensitivity, care and humour by Siobhan Dowd, who is an amazing author. I would fully fully recommend this book to anyone - it'll make you think and leave you with a smile on your face.
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Awfull. A lot of bad language
I was listening to the audio version of this, the first chapter is fine but from the beginning of the 2nd chapter there is a lot of bad language, after only 5 or 10 minutes into... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gem
brilliant book
i really like this book, it is beautifully written and exetremely gripping, you really empathise with holly. Read more
Published 19 months ago by r
A bitter-sweet novel
Solace of the Road is a bitter-sweet story about Holly Hogan, a fourteen year old girl who has been living in a residential care home. Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by R. LILES
Charming, gritty and hopeful
In some ways, the story of Holly Hogan starts with what many readers might think of as a happy ending. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2010 by L
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Life has not been exactly fair to Holly. She has grown up in a series of group and foster homes surrounded by social workers who say they care, but it certainly doesn't feel like... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by TeensReadToo
Siobhan Dowd is a great loss to literature
'Solace of the Road' was Siobhan Dowd's final young adult novel - a really gifted author, sadly shed died from cancer in 2007. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2009 by Lincs Reader
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