The Colours of My Mind

Mummy said, ’I realise now that when we were married, I knew very little about Daddy, and I didn’t understand him at all. There was a big age gap between us, and we came from very different backgrounds. And whatever happened to me during the War had a terrible effect on me. Your poor Daddy couldn’t know that, could he?’ Daddy sighed. ‘After you were born, Mummy wouldn’t let me near you. At the time, I was very hurt, but now I understand why she felt like that.’ I said, without thinking. ‘But you sent us away.’ It’s the early 1970s, and Pippa Herman is a young teenager, experiencing the pleasure and drama of intense friendships. While her mother tries to uncover the truth about what happened to her family during the War, her ex-husband tries to convince their daughter that there are two sides to every story. And all the while, the War, that ended more than a quarter century ago, continues to wreak havoc in the lives of the living. The Colours of My Mind is the fifth in the My True Nature series of novels, exploring attachment, love, and loss in Britain in the 1960s and 70s.