Cordelia is eight years old, with a name she hates, a mother who's distracted, and a nanny who doesn't speak her language. Everyone thinks she's a little girl with problems, but to Cordelia, her only problem is that everyone has a colour and she doesn't: mum's is "steely and sharp", nanny Martha is "sandy and slippery", her teacher is "clammy and whitish like over-cooked pasta", while grandad was "green and gold". How can she know what her colour is? And so one day Cordelia decides not to go to school, but to go off on an adventure to find her colour. If she finds it, she thinks, then she'll also find the key to all the boxes where words are locked away, and she'll be able to break the pact of silence she's made, even with her little confidante, Cordelia-in-the-mirror. Who is Mr d? Why does she decide some people on the streets of Milan are invisible? And why is White-wizard following her? A quirky rite-of-passage story whose delightful magic captivates the reader.
- ISBN10 1780880006
- ISBN13 9781780880006
- Publish Date 22 December 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Troubador Publishing
- Imprint Troubador Storia
- Format Paperback
- Pages 152
- Language English