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Clare Morrall’s insightful debut tells of identity struggles, the approach of breakdown - and the optimism of an eccentric, loving marriage.
Clare Morrall’s first novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, was published in 2003 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year.
She has since published the novels Natural Flights of the Human Mind, The Language of Others, The Man Who Disappeared, which was a TV Book Club Summer Read in 2010, The Roundabout Man and After the Bombing. Born in Exeter, Clare Morrall now lives in Birmingham. She works as a music teacher, and has two daughters.