book cover of The Book of Colour
 

The Book of Colour

(1995)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel (nominee)
Her first work of fiction, this journey around the writer's father and grandfather is set largely in Mauritius and concerns childhood, madness, fears of miscegenation - and a pig. By the author of "The Emperor's Last Island" and "Daisy Bates in the Desert".

Genre: Literary Fiction

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