About this item
NOT EVERYONE SEES THE WORLD THROUGH THE SAME LENS. From the author of Something Invisible comes this funny and poignant novel about the hues of friendship.Spunky Olivia and eccentric Hal are an unlikely pair. While Hal suffers from a neurological condition called synesthesia that causes him to associate things with colors, Olivia tends to see the world in black and white. Still, these two are friends through thick and thin, through rose-colored days and blue days, even when Hal's plan to get rid of his mother's boyfriend backfires by driving his mother away. Olivia's honest, funny and always-opinionated voice tells this story with colorful perception.
About the Author
I was born in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, more years ago than you need to know. When I was a child, I lived in Loughrea in CountyGalway (and I still have lots of relations there) , Galway city and Letterkenny in County Donegal. And then I came back to Dublin, to Trinity College, and (apart from a year spent in Munich) , I have lived in Dublin ever since. I like it here. I like going away, but I love coming home. I've been writing books for more years than you have been alive (if you are one of my typical readers, ie under the age of about fourteen) , and there are quite a lot of them by now. I love writing for kids, because kids are the BEST readers in the world. This is a scientific fact. Sometimes I also write for adults, but only sometimes.As well as writing, I also translate children's books (from German) . That's why some of the books on my author page are by other people -- I translated them, but somebody else wrote them (in German) . I also publish children's books (ones written by other people, I mean) , in my teeny tiny publishing company, Little Island Books, which lives in what used to be my dining room. (I have a very short commute in the mornings.) I am visually impaired, which means I don't see very well and I can't read books or newspapers. (I can read on the computer, because I can make the words very big.) This is not a great thing for a writer, because of course writers need to read a lot. So mostly I read ebooks or listen to audiobooks. I LOVE audiobooks. (Though they do tend to put me to sleep; this can be a problem, especially if you are on the bus. I am often on the bus.) I think that's enough about me.
