Astonishing Splashes of Colour

Name: Astonishing Splashes of Colour
Author: Clare Morrall
ISBN: 9781444780321

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Kitty Wellington is the narrator of Clare Morrall's absorbing sure-footed first novel. She has been brought up in a large family by her painter father. Surrounded by older brothers, she has no real recollection of either her mother, who was killed in a car crash, or her sister, who ran away from home. The great strength of the novel is Kitty herself. Morrall has provided her with a compelling narrative voice—wry, confiding, perceptive. Echoes from JM Barrie's disturbing masterpiece are quietly sounded with particular emphasis on missing mothers and "lost boys".

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