SOLACE OF THE ROAD
Book ID/图书代码： 12730508B27805
English Summary/英文概要： 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. 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. She’s not Holly any more, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the super-sharp talk. She’s older, more confident - the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head on.
So begins a bittersweet, and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self, and unlocking the secrets of her past.
SOLACE OF THE ROAD is a wonderful novel from one of the UK’s most talented new writers for teenagers. Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《苏伦斯在旅途》蕴含了一切真实的元素：摩擦，悲伤，幽默，敏锐的观察力等等，书中扣人心弦的旅程，令人难忘的中心人物紧紧抓住你的眼球，使你不肯移开视线。这本时而悲怆，时而轻松的书绝对是难得一见的佳作，非常值得推荐。
对妈妈的零星记忆是唯一能让霍利开心点的事。她恨她伪善的收养家庭，她也恨自己的生活，她愚蠢的学校还有每个人对待她的方式。直到有一天她找到了一顶假发。带上这长长的金发，霍利发生了很大的转变。她不再是霍利了，取而代之的是更为成熟自信的女孩苏伦斯，能大胆地迈开步子，清晰地高谈阔论。她就像是那种能走出这凡尘俗世，独自去爱尔兰寻找母亲的女孩；就像是那种天不怕，地不怕，勇敢面对世界的女孩。
所以她开展了一段喜忧参半的旅程，她一会儿像是自信的苏伦斯大摇大摆，时而又像怯懦的霍利蹑手蹑脚穿越英国去寻求记忆，还有，真实的自我，以及尘封的过去。
《苏伦斯在旅途》是最优秀的青少年读物之一，霍利会激励着一个个在旅程中的孩子们。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：《苏伦斯在旅途》已入围著名的卡内基奖(2010年度)
《苏伦斯在旅途》很适合那些被生活琐事包围的人看。 Siobhan Dowd在成为作家的道路上也遭遇了各种各样的困难。.---Nicholas Tucker，《独立报》
真实，感人，时而让人潸然落泪，时而又幽默一把，不止青少年，成人也会喜欢这本书的。——《爱尔兰日报》
《苏伦斯在旅途》以霍利喜忧参半的旅途为背景，精心地编写。——www.bfkbooks.com
这本书用诗般的语言描绘了我们每日俗世的生活。——Nicolette Jones Culture
About the Author/作者介绍： 在2007年8月，Siobhan Dowd的丈夫死于癌症，享年47岁，这之前，她都与丈夫住在牛津。她是个杰出的作家，也是个不平凡的人。Siobhan的第一部小说《纯洁的哭喊》赢得了布兰福博斯奖和伊利斯迪伦奖，被入围了卡内基奖和图书基金会青少年图书奖。她的第二本小说，《伦敦之眼谜案》获得了2007年度NASEN & TES特殊教育需求儿童读物奖以及著名的爱尔兰儿童图书奖。Siobhan也被提名为英国最受欢迎的25位儿童作家之一。
Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.
Siobhan’s first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children’s Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan was also named as one of Waterstone’s twenty five British writers for the future.
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