I’ve always found synthenesia fascinating - the ability some people have to experience their senses in a totally different and amazing way. This novel explores what it would be like to live life where everyone’s emotions and deepest feelings were revealed to you by the colour of their auras. Overwhelming for the main character we follow her journey to learn to live with this. I really enjoyed the book though it seemed to suddenly speed up a hundredfold and gallop through the last half of her life at a breathtaking speed.

I enjoyed this book in a thousand different ways…

I thought this an interesting angle for a novel, someone coping with be able to see people’s auras and being labelled a troublemaker for her gifts.

I like the journey that Alice went on and the dynamic in the family. I wanted thought to understand more about what started it, and then I wanted to know more about Andy. All good though.

What a beautiful book. I adore Cecilia Ahearn and In a thousand different ways will stay with me for a long time.
So descriptive and enthralling, it captivated me from the start. Truly lovely. Thank you NetGalley and Harper Collins for the opportunity to read and review. Highly recommend.

What a fabulous book! I absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down. Alice lives in a chaos of other people's emotions which she sees as colours and which affect her own feelings unless she protects herself from them. The character descriptions are so beautifully written, the grief, love, violence and ambivalence that people feel throughout their lives and which Alice sees and interprets as their colours battle against her desire for peace and solitude.

My only criticism is that the last part of the book is too fast but that's probably because I really didn't want it to end, I was completely absorbed.

There has been a lot of books in the last few years with quirky main characters.
They rarely meet expectations.
This one however does.
Alice is a character I could really enjoy, her toxic home life was a story in itself I would have happily read, but add her issue with colours, and it's a winner.
My favourite parts were her early life, and her struggles of finding out who she was, and how she coped with it as she grew older.
I felt the last part of the book we just rushed through her life, there were big events that could have been explored more.
I spent a thoroughly enjoyable few hours with Alice and her family, and friends.

I read this in one sitting. I couldn't put it down. I loved it - every second of it. I should have expected it from this author, but it still took my breath away. It was so unusual. The story twisted and turned. Who knew where it was going to lead you. But in the end it took me to a touching ending, once that had me crying. I can't recommend this enough. It was a wonderful read. Thank you.