Kitty Wellington is gifted--or cursed--with synaesthesia: she sees people in terms of their colors--a vivid aura that surrounds each one. And that's only the most startling in a list of her problems. Kitty has just suffered a devastating miscarriage, her adoring but eccentric husband lives next door, her father is a possibly deranged artist, her ...
A captivating new novel from the Man Booker Prize -- shortlisted author of "Astonishing Splashes" "of Colour" that combines suspense, dark humour, and the sheer eccentricities of being human. Peter Straker lives in a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast, where his routines are dictated by the sea and weather. He speaks to no one -- except in ...
The captivating new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of "Astonishing Splashes Of Colour." In a disused lighthouse on the Devon coast lives Peter Straker, a recluse who, in his dreams, is visited by an oddly disparate group of people from a grandmother to a teenager. But they have all been dead for 24 years - and Straker thinks he ...
The world is a puzzling, sometimes frightening place for Jessica Fontaine. As a child she only finds contentment in playing the piano and wandering alone in the empty spaces of Audlands Hall, the dilapidated country house where she grows up. Twenty-five years later, divorced, with her son still living at home, Jessica remains preoccupied by the ...
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