Relda and the Runaway - Elaine Coltham

Welcome to ‘Relda and The Runaway’, an engaging and beautifully sensitive tale of how the course of a young person’s life can be changed in the blink of an emerald eye. The story is an intriguing and emotional journey of a desperate runaway teenager, Micki, who fears she will be placed into care following the death of her guardian grandmother. A chance encounter with an old lady on a train proves to be life-changing. Meet Relda, just an eccentric, kind and remarkably energetic old lady. Or is she? Could she be an angel who only appears when she is needed? A story of despair, of unlikely friendship, of tears, of laughter but most of all hope.