How can you pretend to be somebody else, when you're just figuring out that you don't really know who you were?

My name is Holly Latham. I moved here from Gloucester because of the special school here, which my sister Katie needs. We keep moving across the country because of my dad's job, and so I have been home-schooled for the last two years.

This is who I am. This is my past. I am no longer Louisa Drummond – she is gone, never to return. My name is Holly Latham.

One minute I remember sitting on my bed, the blue-green curtains blowing with the wind, and the next, I'm in the countryside, looking at my not-so-nice new 'home', my autistic little sister who just wants to go to the park and onto the swings to feel freedom blowing against her face, my parents' amazingly understanding and kind faces and, of course, that emo guy walking past me!

Holly Latham's story written by Laura Jarratt is so real, so raw, that I felt I was living it right there with her – as her! It's about how she struggles to change who she is, make a whole new (required) life for herself and forget everything that had happened until that moment, along with her family. As if it's that easy to put everything to put behind everything that once was and start again, with everything completely new, as the Witness Protection Program requires you to do.

A fresh, brilliant new type of story on acceptance, love and family!

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