ABOUT
THE BOOK

When is the right time to tell ‘someone they’re not who they think they are’?
Caught in an over-vivid world, Kitty feels haunted by her ‘child that never was’. As children all round become emblems of hope, longing and grief, she begins to understand the reasons for her shaky sense of self.
What family mystery makes Kitty’s four brothers so vague about her mother’s life? And why does Dad splash paint on canvas rather than answer his daughter’s questions? On the edges of her dreams, Kitty glimpses the kaleidoscope van that took her sister Dinah away – is it a link to her indistinct childhood?