The Runaway (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781782642428)

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. In the woods she finds space for her active imagination--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 uncover the cracks in Llandymna's quiet surface. Relationships become frayed as a young police officer is forced to investigate his neighbors, and the village's elderly storyteller hints at a secret that the older generation has kept for decades. But as painful as the village's past may be, it may hold the key for hope in the present...

Claire Wong's strong debut explores how human relationships develop, how we change as we interact with one another, and the role of folktales and mythology in small communities.

Author: Claire Wong
ISBN-10: 1782642420
ISBN-13: 9781782642428
Publisher: Lion Fiction
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/03/2017
Foreword 04/26/2017