Colette has dreams of packing a rucksack and taking off to faraway lands - flying off from one exotic place to another as a famous foreign correspondent on a London newspaper - or even as the next Kate Adie. But how can she win the school Travel Writing competition when her summer holiday is the thrilling prospect of two weeks in Weston with her dad? It certainly won't be the same as going to Egypt. At first, Weston seems to confirm all Colette's worst nightmares. But that's before she meets the two boys who take their horses swimming in the sea at dawn: friendly sandy-haired Robert and the dark-haired, dark-eyed Caz who turns Colette's stomach to liquid with a glance. Maybe Robert's right after all - it's not where you go that matters, it's who you meet while you're there...

Helen Dunmore is a freelance writer of fiction and poetry for both adults and children, including In the Money (Julia MacRae/Red Fox), Going to Egypt (Julia MacRae/Red Fox) and Amima's Blanket (Banana Books, Heinemann). Her titles for adults have won her several literary prizes and awards, including the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, The Signal Award for Secrets and the Orange Prize for A Spell of Winte . Her other adult novels include Zennor in Darkness, Burning Bright and Talking to the Dead. She has wide experience as a writer in schools, libraries etc., working with schemes such as the Poetry Society's Poets-in-Schools, and independently. Author lives- Bristol