Claire Fuller's Reviews > Out of Breath

This is an usual coming-of-age story about a thirteen-year-old girl called Flynn who runs away from home with her brother Sam. They team up with three others who have run away from the care system, and together the five of them set off across the fields. It's so hard to say much more without spoilers, but what I can say is that Myerson writes children and young people so well. Amongst the group is a six-year-old girl called Mouse - irritating, persistent, loveable - so perfectly written, she jumps off the page. There is an ambiguity at the heart of this novel and if that kind of thing annoys you, if you want answers to the questions that novels raise, then this book probably isn't for you, but if you're happy to be there for the brilliant characterisation, the great sense of place, and general weirdness, and I so am, then do read this.