June Oldham
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- female
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- UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Lincolnshire, England, UK
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- 14
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- 215
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- #103,625
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- 3.0
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- 4
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- 32
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- 1
Ren is a girl whose mum is basically illiterate - we eventually learn that she named her daughter after the wren, a small bird seen on TV. When her mum became pregnant and could not afford the tax on a second child, she sends Ren off with a lorry driver to someone living in a smaller less urbanised community but the person fails to turn up to meet her and Ren is left in a cave with some basic supplies to await collection. She is befriended by Brocket, a boy raised by an old woman after he was abandoned, and later meets a street person, Lil, an older girl.
When Brocket finds an abandoned baby, the fun really starts as the children trek across the forbidding land - in which Brocket is at home - to evade the authority patrol men and their dogs who would put Ren in a Surplus Children Unit and possibly do something worse to Lil. Eventually they discover someone else is tracking them, after the baby, that they name Found, though they have help from the old woman who raised Brocket, and Hilary, another boy, educated and well equipped, who is researching the area to complete a book that his deceased father had intended to write.
Despite the well described privations and filth, there are positive aspects to the children's experiences, because Ren develops confidence and competence, and the two boys face personal demons, but it does have a fairly pessimistic ending
Note: this book was later republished under the title 'Found'.… (meer)