The Runaway
by Claire Wong
Published: February
17 2017
Publisher: Lion
Fiction
Genre: Fiction,
Contemporary
Blurb:
Shortly before her eighteenth birthday, Rhiannon Morgan runs
away from the remote Welsh village of Llandymna. Camping out in Dyrys Woods,
she starts to make a new life for herself and she finds space for her active
imagination to run wild. Weaving together the stories she loves and memories of
her past, including the mother she lost thirteen years ago. Back in the
village, Rhiannon's disappearance triggers a series of events that uncovers the
cracks in Llandymna's quiet surface. Quick-tempered Callum finds himself
reluctantly drawn into search parties, while a young police officer is forced
to investigate his neighbours, and the village's elderly story-teller hints at
a secret that the older generation have kept for decades...
My Review:
Seventeen-year-old Rhiannon Morgan has had enough of
everyone with their phoniness in the little Welsh village of Llandymna where
she lives and decides to run away. Rhiannon gets into an argument with her
Aunt, one of many and decides to leave taking only a small bag with her.
The Runaway tells the stories of several different people
and from different points of view. We get Rhiannon’s story of how she runs away
to live to make a life for herself in the Dyrys Woods close to her home. The
other point of view is of the people who live in the village of Llandymna.
The Runaway tells us about Rhiannon and why she wanted to
run away and of her life and how she survived in the forest. It also gives us
the story from the runaway’s family and the whole towns reasoning of why the
girl left and how they felt about one of their own missing.
The Runaway is more than just one girl being immature and
needing to grow up. No it is about the whole town needing to mature and grow up
as well. Not only did Rhiannon have things in her life that she needed to
accept and leave behind the town itself had secrets that it needed to look at
deal with it and put behind them.
The Runaway is a coming of age story for a young girl and a
whole town or village. They both had things they needed to deal with things
that hurt them but in different ways.
I would recommend The Runaway to anyone who is looking for a
warm heart felt story.
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