Astonishing splashes of colour
By: Clare Morrall.
Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Birmingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction; Book reviewing -- Fiction; Childlessness -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Birmingham (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Caught in an over-vivid world because of her synaesthesia (feelings are experienced as colors), Kitty feels haunted by her "child that never was." As children all around become emblems of hope, longing, and grief, she begins to understand the reasons for her shaky sense of self. What family mystery makes her four brothers so vague about her mother's life, who died when she was three? Why does Dad splash paint on canvas rather than answer his daughter's questions? On the edges of her dreams, Kitty glimpses the kaleidoscope van that took her sister Dinah away - is it a link to her indistinct childhood?"--BOOK JACKET.