'The Missing Shade of Blue' by Jennie Erdal

In Jennie Erdal's brilliant memoir Ghosting (2004) she 'came out' as the ghostwriter for the flamboyant, larger than life Naim Attallah. I remember loving this book and telling everyone to read it. So when Peregrinations mentioned The Missing Shade of Blue to me, Erdal's first novel under her own name, I was intrigued, but  with my mother having been ill it took me even longer than usual to finish, my stopping and starting more stopping and stopping.

And I confess I have mixed feelings ab...