Rosie Coloured Glasses

Told with the emotional impact of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, this powerful debut is at once beguiling and heartbreaking. Rosie Coloured Glasses is a novel about the important things in life, about a young person's struggle to make sense of a world of extremes - extreme loneliness and extreme love - and about how the human heart may break, yet still have the capacity to heal and the resiliency to love again. Sometimes even all the love in the world is not enough to save someone.Willow Thorpe knows friction… The friction between her parents, Rosie and Rex. The friction inside herself as she tries to navigate two worlds since their divorce.But life has not always been like this.When Rosie and Rex first met, theirs was an attraction of opposites. Rosie lived life for those heightened moments when love reveals its true secrets. Rex lived life safely, by the rules. Common sense would say theirs was a union not meant to last, but it was genuine love.Now Willow just wants to be with Rosie, to bask in her mother's outsize glow and, she thinks, protection. Because Rosie is the only person who can make Willow feel totally alive and completely loved.But as Willow and Rosie and Rex try harder and harder to stay connected as a family, Rosie's manic tornado of love continues to sweep up everyone in sight, ultimately to heartbreaking results.Debut of a Powerful New Voice. Readers captivated by Bernadette in Maria Semple's Where'd You Go... or Oskar in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close will embrace Rosie Coloured Glasses. A novel about love, loss and the human heart.