Astonishing Splashes of Colour, (Paperback)

from Niecierpek

A great idiosyncratic narrator, marriage and family. Great book! Warm, odd, funny and optimistic at the same time. And the narration that keeps you "just informed"- not too much, and not too little- just what you need to know to keep going. And you do keep going- I had to finish it before reading...

from Limelite

Since I loved Natural Flights of the Human Mind so much when I read it 4 or 5 years ago, I've wanted to read anything this author writes. So, I got this Booker Prize finalist, Morrall's debut novel. As before, she writes about an alienated woman, one who sees colors when she looks at people and w...

from SeriousGrace

This is the kind of book I could read a thousand times over. This is the style of writing I most identify with. Astonishing Splashes of Colour is so intimate and in-your-face I feel as if Morrall's main character, Kitty, is leaning in to tell me deep and dark secrets, stories of embarrassing mome...

from Cariola

I finally picked up this book, which I had been looking at for quite some time. It grabbed my attention and kept it right through to the end. It's a sad story, but not without it's warmer and lighter moments, and certainly not without hope. Morrall creates a wonderful central character who goes t...

from jayne_charles

The cover of this book uses terms like 'solid', 'unassuming', 'not showy', and I worried it might plod. In fact it moves pleasingly quickly, with a series of events that will both shock and fascinate. There is a fair amount of humour, and anyone who has struggled with (or even without) children w...