In this case, Alice’s relationships with others considering her unusual ability forms the crux of story is all about and is well written. Vivid, bright, intense colours that tell Alice people’s thoughts, which sounds wonderful but the problem for Alice is that she feels those feelings too, they seep into her own being, she feels their pain, sadness and trauma. This was most interesting, following Alice throughout her life, her struggles with her difficult mum and younger brother, but loved and understood by her older brother. A line in the book above, as I read and listen to music most of the time (in particulary reading this book), I find Ms Ahern's disbelief that this can be happening very funny.

Over the years, and with the help of certain people, she begins to learn how to live with this 'gift', as it is described to her, but not without many battles. First off if this was the first book of Cecelia I had read I would not read any more, I also feel if this is how her books are going to be from now on I don’t think I will bother in future. We meet Alice when she’s just eight and it’s the first time she starts seeing colour (or auras) around people.

She is now published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over twenty-five million copies of her novels worldwide. For a novel centring on colours, I’m afraid this was terribly bland, or hummus as Ahern might describe it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is not clear if she was born with it or developed it later, but she is suffering alimentation and feels cursed. It won’t put me off reading Cecelia Ahern’s books as I have loved so many of them and I will hope that the next one is a winner for me.

Reading Alice accept the hand she was dealt with in life and discovering how she turned all the negatives into positives was heartwarming!I never read blurbs, if the title catches me, cover catches me or it’s one of my favourite authors I’ll read it. We follow Alice through her difficult childhood and teenage years with a selfish, uncaring mother, one brother who wants out and another who seems to sop up all his mother's negative energy. Towards the end of the book it was very rushed had kids the first one then a miscarriage then the next paragraph was her talking about all her 3 kids. Alice has the skill to visualise in colours and fights through life coming from a suboptimal family. Furthermore, I liked how the relationship between Alice and Lily progresses throughout the book, and I think it was handled brilliantly.