‘Your child is missing - presumed dead.’
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.
- 'A poignant and at times heart-breaking debut novel’ Kate Furnivall
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- ‘An intriguing mystery from a talented new author' ELLE
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- 'The story is a journey, and has all the best bits you could hope for: an intriguing death, unfulfilled dreams and a painful discovery. It rips along in synthesised psychedelic India - book the ticket, buy the book’ GRAZIA (Aus)
Paperback:
£7.99
Published 05/03/2009
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