Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Softcover

"A heart-breaking and accomplished debut."--Bookseller (London)

"An inprobably uplifting novel about depression and its sources."--Independent (UK)

"A moving novel about loss, and particularly lost children"--The Guardian (UK)

"An extremely good first novel: deceptively simple, subtly observed, with a plot that drags you forward like a strong current."--Daily Mail (London)

"Astonishing Splashes of Color commands us from the first page..."--Jacquelyn Mitchard

"Equally dangerous and endearing, ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR is a poignant tour through the many moods of loss."--Laurie Fox, author of The Lost Girls

"Absorbing and sure-footed first novel...extremely well written and cimpulsively readable...a genuinely solid and satisfying work of fiction."--Sunday Times (London)

"Wellington, a memorable heroine, narrates "Astonishing Splashes of Color," a terrific debut novel by British writer Clare Morrall."--Buffalo News

"Beautifully subtle. . . . It draws the reader in page after page."--Boston Globe

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

Emotionally stalled after losing her mother and suffering a miscarriage, childlike Kitty observes her world through a series of high and low moods, struggles to uncover childhood secrets, and finds the truth challenging her ability to maintain her tenuous hold on reality. A first novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.