Road novels are almost as old as literature itself. A character strikes out into the world, following the road less travelled through cities, woods, mountains, time … They are journeys of self-discovery that often tell us more about the world at large than we’d like to know, and in the pages of Emily’s Wild Abandon and Kate’s The Mother Fault we discover two unforgettable characters travelling landscapes that are as familiar as they are threatening. Who doesn’t love a good road trip?