Description: "An extremely good first novel: deceptively simple, subtly observed, with a plot that drags you forward like a strong current." - Daily Mail (London) "A moving novel about loss, and particularly lost children" - The Guardian (UK) "A heart-breaking and accomplished debut." - Bookseller (London) "...propulsive and compelling...a gripping [story]." - New York Times Book Review "This finely constructed novel, Booker Prize (shortlist), should please readers of both popular and literary fiction." - Library Journal (starred review) "Astonishing Splashes of Color commands us from the first page..." - Jacquelyn Mitchard "This finely constructed novel, Booker Prize (shortlist), should please readers of both popular and literary fiction." - Library Journal "An inprobably uplifting novel about depression and its sources." - Independent (UK) "Absorbing and sure-footed first novel...extremely well written and cimpulsively readable...a genuinely solid and satisfying work of fiction." - Sunday Times (London) "Wellington, a memorable heroine, narrates "Astonishing Splashes of Color," a terrific debut novel by British writer Clare Morrall." - Buffalo News "A brave and startling book, tinted, shaded and stained like life itself." - Philadelphia Inquirer "Astonishing Splashes of Colours is a brave and startling book, tinted, shaded and stained like life itself." - Philadelphia Inquirer "Beautifully subtle. . . . It draws the reader in page after page." - Boston Globe "A core of truth, suffused with a golden glow, becoming more pleasurable the more [it] wander[s]." - San Francisco Chronicle "Equally dangerous and endearing, ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR is a poignant tour through the many moods of loss." - Laurie Fox, author of The Lost Girls "An ethereal novel of loss and redemption that is both heartbreaking and beautiful . . . this is a novel to be savored." - Booklist "Compelling. . . . Morrall is a sure, sharp writer, and she understands the single-minded nature of grief." - Newsweek "An extraordinary, gripping novel written with no sentimentality. A wonderful piece of writing" - Professor John Carey, Chair of the Man Booker Prize

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