Breathing in Colour by Clare Jay

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“These are the stars we catch before I go to sleep,” Mia had announced, her eyes ablaze with pride as she pointed at the sequins. “When the pink ones sparkle, they fizz in my mouth like sherbet.”

This is a really lovely story. The themes are not so lovely - a teenage daughter gone missing in India, divorce, abandonment, estrangement, and yet the author has done a really stellar job of addressing all these topics without being heavy and depressing but still serious and sincere.

The main characters behaviour while not always likeable is believable. They are normal people with normal reactions.

Mia has a condition which means that you experience emotions etc as colours as feelings. It adds a lovely poetical tone to the story.



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