Colourbook
Summary
Young Marie, pregnant by a feckless sailor, manouevres the reliable Sam away from college and into wedlock. The result is a daughter, Pia, followed by her half-brother, Luke, and an unhappy marriage. Between the children, an intense and loving bond develops, a bond that as teenagers it leads them away from home and into dangerous waters.
Against a loveless backdrop, Pia and her half-brother Luke grow up to form a passionate bond that leads them away from home and into a wild, hand-to-mouth existence. In spare yet emotionally charged prose, Rosalyn Chissick charts a relationship that challenges society's boundaries and conventions. A shocking, poignant and poetic novel by a prize-winning writer.
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