“At 3.15 every weekday afternoon, I become anonymous in a crowd of parents and child-minders congregating outside the school gates. To me, waiting for children to come out of school is a quintessential act of motherhood. I see the mums – and the occasional dads – as yellow people. Yellow as the sun, a daffodil, the submarine. But why do we teach children to paint the sun yellow? It’s a deception. The sun is white-hot, brilliant, impossible to see with the naked eye, so why do we confuse brightness with yellow?” 
From ‘Astonishing Splashes of Colour’ by Clare Morrall
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AFTER THE BOMBING
NATURAL FLIGHTS OF THE HUMAN MIND
THE LANGUAGE OF OTHERS
THE LAST OF THE GREENWOODS
THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED
THE ROUNDABOUT MAN
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Interesting for me to read this Sandra as Clare Morrall edited the anthology which is, so far, my one publication! But I haven’t actually read any of her books, I think perhaps I should…
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Oh, you are in for a treat! 🙂 SD
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Great opening, indeed!
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Yes it’s very intriguing, definitely makes me want to read more. SD
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nice!
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I have loved everything Clare Morrall has written. 🙂 SD
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