Divine and diverse with a generous flow of poetic prose. The uniqueness erupts from the pages and sweeps you up in a exotic telling of travel, the haunting elements of sadness and the discrimination that isolates Ella and her mother. Ella has a gift, inheritance from her family origins that sets her apart even more than her exotic background. Ella can see, hear and feel things that others can’t. It is a shimmering of colour that guides her through the prejudice and the fear that is a constant companion. The Elegance of literature is strong in this novel with beautiful transcripts such as..a slip of oyster coloured silk that falls over the body like a sigh of pleasure. A divine dress made from the fragrance of the wind. It enraptures the reader in its entirety and leaves you breathless with anticipating the next magical sentence that haunts you.