Author: Clare JayISBN: 9780749929787Publisher: Little BrownYear first published: 01 May 2009Pages: 288 Format: Paperback / softbackYour 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.
