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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Black Swan (18 July 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 055277801X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552778015
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 298,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Two sisters. One life-changing tragedy.

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‘You shouldn’t trust anybody completely,’ Jen says.

‘Why not?’

‘They’re still just people. They can still let you down.’

Since their mother’s sudden death, Carly has been in charge of her little sister Jen. She is terrified that the two will be separated,

Carly wants them to find their way back to the last person she trusted – their stepfather. But Jen holds a secret about him which could put them both at even more risk.

And so begins a journey neither girl could have anticipated. It isn't an easy one, and is often dangerous. But they are also confronted with the expected kindness of strangers. And some new relationships that hold the potential to change everything…

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5.0 out of 5 starsMoving, engrossing story
By L. H. Healy TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 23 July 2013
Format: Paperback
This moving story had me intrigued and asking questions straight away; who are Carly and Jen, why are they walking such a long way, just the two of them, so young? What has happened? Who is Teddy and why is Carly so determined that he is the one to help them?

Sisters Carly, 16, and Jen, 12, have set off from New Mexico and are trying to get to Teddy in California. They soon become hungry and tired, and it becomes increasingly difficult for them to continue and to stay safe and not risk it being discovered that they are on the run alone together; the threat of being taken in by the authorities and potentially separated keeps them walking and reluctant to reveal the reality of their situation to anyone.

Then the novel takes a step back further in time, a few months earlier, and we meet Teddy, their mother's ex-boyfriend, and we meet the girls' mother, and their recent past slowly reveals itself. The sisters have had a difficult, unsettled childhood and experienced much disappointment; and now their world has been turned upside down. They travel so many miles, struggling along together, desperate and starving at times, and as I read, I feared for them, but I was also heartened by the kindnesses that they encountered from people too.

It is primarily Carly whose thoughts we follow, and it's a very emotional as well as physical endurance test that she goes through on her journey. It is very clear that she has lost her trust in others and lost her belief in her self, and her self worth; she has convinced herself that she doesn't matter and that 'everyone likes Jen better'.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsTake a walk with this wonderful book!
By Leah on 26 July 2013
Format: Paperback
I love Catherine Ryan Hyde. Her novels are so accomplished, so readable, with absolutely amazing plots that no other author could do justice to. Second Hand Heart, When I Found You, Don't Let Me Go are all amazing novels. So whenever a new Catherine Ryan Hyde is released, it's a must-buy for me. I appear to have not read her release last year, When You Were Older, but that will be sharply fixed, and when I got a copy of her new one Walk Me Home, I started it as soon as I'd cleared anything else I had to review, because I just couldn't wait to read it.

Walk Me Home is yet another triumphant Catherine Ryan Hyde novel. It has all the hallmarks of a Catherine Ryan Hyde novel, and I was captivate by Carly and Jen, who after a devastating tragedy, are walking from New Mexico to California in a bid to get to their step-dad Teddy. That in itself is heartbreaking, that two young girls (13 and 16) are having to walk, by themselves, through Arizona in the baking heat with barely any other people around, in a bid to not be seen or captured and sent to foster care. Carly knows that if they can reach California, reach Teddy, then they'll be OK, their life will be a bit better, but Jen has a secret, and it's something that's going to blow Carly's life to bits.

What I think Catherine Ryan Hyde does best is she takes a small community of people - a group of misfits, or a group you wouldn't normally give two figs about - and makes you care about them. In Don't Let Me Go that was shown to its fullest potential, as Gracie was taken care of by so many kind people, and that shows itself again in Walk Me Home, after the girls are caught trying to steal eggs from a lady's henhouse.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBelonging
By Julia Wilson on 27 Jun. 2016
Format: Paperback
Walk Me Home by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a contemporary novel about searching to belong and I really enjoyed it.
Sixteen year old Carly and eleven year old Jen spend much of the novel walking. They are on a journey looking for home. Carly has a restless spirit that cannot settle. She is focussed in her search. Jen has a calmer nature. She knows a truth that Carly has yet to grasp - home is not a place, home is a relationship and being with people who love you. Will Carly ever grasp this truth?
Carly and Jen are a unit. They are sisters. They have a bond. Carly has a dominant personality. She loves Jen but doesn't always hear correctly what she is saying. Carly wants Jen and everything else in the world to fit in with her views. She fails to mould her life into the circumstances and people around her.
Catherine Ryan Hyde presents a wonderful picture of the Native Americans in her fictional Wakapi tribe. The reader can 'feel' their love and concern and 'see' their way of life.
Jen is far closer to the natural world than Carly. "You think if it wasn't made by a person, it's nothing at all." Jen can see the beauty in nature and adapts to her surroundings whereas Carly just sees a barren landscape.
The girls have a great moral code. They realise stealing is wrong. Carly has every intention of repaying whatever they borrowed. They both have good hearts.
The reader can 'feel' Carly's pain as she searched to belong. It seemed to her that in all circumstances, Jen was always chosen over her. Carly felt like a second class citizen and just wanted to be put first in life.
Catherine Ryan Hyde showed how people can have big hearts. Not everyone is motivated by the "what's in it for me?" syndrome. Some people just give without expecting anything back.Read more ›
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