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'A carefully crafted, totally engaging epic family drama' Yorkshire
Post 'Delightful' Daily Mail Da said the Pearson family came out of
the sand. He said they were born out of the red clarty sand that
stuck to the soles of boots and the hems of frocks. You couldn't
just brush the sand away, you had to beat your clothes with the
palm of your hand like you were smacking them for being naughty.
You had to bang your boots against the doorstep and find a knife to
gouge away the sand that clung to the heels and round the
stitching. Ellen has a unique view of the world but living in a
tiny town in the north-east of England, in a world on the cusp of
war, no one has time for an orphaned girl who seems a little odd.
When she is taken in to look after a rich, elderly widow things
seem to be get better, despite musty curtains and an aging employer
completely out of touch with the world. But pregnancy out of
wedlock spoils all this, and Ellen is unable to cope. How will
Jack, her son, survive - alone in the world as his mother was? Can
they eventually find their way back to each other? The Colours is a
sweeping novel of how we can lose ourselves, and our loved ones,
for fans of Kate Atkinson and Virginia Baily.
'A carefully crafted, totally engaging epic family drama' Yorkshire
Post 'Delightful' Daily Mail Da said the Pearson family came out of
the sand. He said they were born out of the red clarty sand that
stuck to the soles of boots and the hems of frocks. You couldn't
just brush the sand away, you had to beat your clothes with the
palm of your hand like you were smacking them for being naughty.
You had to bang your boots against the doorstep and find a knife to
gouge away the sand that clung to the heels and round the
stitching. Ellen has a unique view of the world but living in a
tiny town in the north-east of England, in a world on the cusp of
war, no one has time for an orphaned girl who seems a little odd.
When she is taken in to look after a rich, elderly widow things
seem to be get better, despite musty curtains and an aging employer
completely out of touch with the world. But pregnancy out of
wedlock spoils all this, and Ellen is unable to cope. How will
Jack, her son, survive - alone in the world as his mother was? Can
they eventually find their way back to each other? The Colours is a
sweeping novel of how we can lose ourselves, and our loved ones,
for fans of Kate Atkinson and Virginia Baily.
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