Breathing in colour
By: Clare Jay
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780753184967; 9780753184974
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Fiction; Missing persons; Backpacking; Synesthesia
Description: "Hours after receiving the phone call that every mother dreads, Alida Salter flies to India to search for her backpacker daughter. The discovery of disturbing collages in Mia's hotel makes Alida suspect a connection between the disaster that fractured their relationship thirteen years ago, and Mia's recent, mysterious disappearance. Mia is no ordinary girl. Growing up with the sensory condition synaesthesia - where she sees the world in a kaleidoscope of shapes, colours and smells - she has gone through life with the vivid imagination of an artist, but for years she has shouldered an overwhelming burden of guilt. It has been a difficult relationship, but now comes the toughest test of all ... Alida must find the courage to trust her maternal instincts, or lose her daughter forever."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Piatkus, 2009.