SOLVED. Children’s fiction, about a girl named Rowan, who ends up alone sleeping in the woods. British, borrowed from the library in the late 1989s/early 90s but may have been written before that… [s]

[Amy]

The girl Rowan is maybe 11 or 12? She travels alone in the summer holidays, by train I think, to stay with someone - possibly an aunt - who lives in the countryside. When Rowan arrives there is nobody there, and she doesn’t have a way of getting home or contacting anyone, so ends up staying in the woods alone for several weeks. I remember her sleeping in a mossy glade. I can’t remember any other details! I feel my 8 year old daughter might enjoy reading it but have no idea what it was!

[Ayshe]

I think this has come up before: Charley?

[bookel]

Collins Lions edition cover for the original title Charley shown here https://www.librarything.com/work/134...
Free to borrow https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15861...

Republished as: The girl who ran away.
Scholastic.

[Amy]

Ah great! Yes this is it. I’d forgotten that she didn’t like the name Rowan, just had that in my mind!