Astonishing Splashes Of Colour Clare Morrall by Clare Morrall 9780060734466, 0060734469, B003YUCEEI instant download after payment.

Clare Morrall’s insightful debut tells of identity struggles, the approach of breakdown - and the optimism of an eccentric, loving marriage.

Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual ability to interpret people and emotions through colour. All families have their mysteries. Caught in an over-vivid world, Kitty is tipped off-centre by the loss of her child that never was. And as children all around become emblems of hope, longing and grief, she’s made shockingly aware of the real reason for her pervasive sense of ‘non-existence’…

“An extraordinary, gripping novel written with no sentimentality. A wonderful piece of writing.” — Professor John Carey, Chair of the Man Booker Prize

“A core of truth, suffused with a golden glow, becoming more pleasurable the more [it] wander[s].”  — San Francisco Chronicle

Clare Morrall’s first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 and shot her to fame in a true-to-life rags-to-riches story when her novel Astonishing Splashes of Colour and her tiny, unknown publisher became front page news after the Booker Prize shortlisting. . She has since published the novels Natural Flights of the Human Mind, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, The Roundabout Man and After the Bombing.