In a Thousand Different Ways: the gripping, unforgettable new novel from the Sunday Times number 1 bestselling author

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Her debut novel, PS I Love You was published in January 2004, and was followed by Where Rainbows End (aka Love, Rosie) in November 2004. That is the one thing I really didn’t like about this book the jumping about with no warning it was very hard to keep up with. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. I have cried twice reading a book in my lifetime of thousands and the ending of this had tears running down my cheeks.

I felt rather confused when I started reading In a Thousand Different Ways, I wasn’t sure if I would even finish the book to be honest and I persevered. I was waiting for critical events to happen - but they never did except for when Ollie gets released from Prison and she is forced to go out.Since then I haven't been able to muster courage to read another Ahern or maybe none of the other books held my attention the way PS: ILY did. A line in the book above, as I read and listen to music most of the time (in particulary reading this book), I find Ms Ahern's disbelief that this can be happening very funny.

Alice Kelly’s been given a gift, though if you were to ask Alice about it, she wouldn’t describe it as a gift…. Thank you NetGalley, Cecelia Ahern, and HarperCollins UK for allowing me to read an advanced copy of In a Thousand Different Ways. This book is the life of Alice Kelly who has the rare condition of Synesthesia (dubbed Aura Migraine) whereby she can see the colour of people's aura and lives in a dysfunctional family. Die meiste Zeit allerdings ist diese permanente Reizüberflutung eine große Bürde für sie, gegen die sie sich schützen muss.

Und was passiert, wenn jemand mit Synästhesie auf jemanden trifft, der keinerlei Farbe widerspiegelt? Alice doesn’t like bright sunlight, seeing people’s colors gives her a headache and she doesn’t like people touching her. First off this is a story about Alice and her life of seeing people’s aura’s good and bad, now the story it’s self was ok but it was a bit jumpy for my liking one minute she was at her brothers house the next she was in a pub looking for her Dad. Towards the end of the book it was very rushed had kids the first one then a miscarriage then the next paragraph was her talking about all her 3 kids.

Cecelia Ahern is my favorite author of all times and she was the reason why I started studying English back in the day when I was 12. It didn't make sense to me that someone with sensory/psychic sensitivities would not recognize and attempt to honour another human's needs. I was like what the hell then they all grew up in the next couple of pages then people started to die first her brother in prison then her mum husband other brother then her.The protagonist experiences auras and the author considers how this affects her life in this enjoyable story.

I thoroughly enjoyed it even though I wept quite a lot on and off all the way through and it observes human nature very well.Synaesthesia is an interesting condition and it has worked well as a plot device in a few books that I’ve read in recent years, but hanging the entire story on synaesthesia is not really a runner. Her brother Hugh is supportive, but her mother Lily struggles with illness, and her brother Ollie gets into trouble (later landing up in the jail). Alice moves to London, she finds herself a little flat, becomes friendly with her neighbour Naomi and she struggles to find a job. I felt perhaps the pacing was a bit inconsistent though at the same time recognise Ahern slowed to focus on certain moments in Alice’s life… fast forwarding through others. There is a heavy touch on mental illness and abuse that Alice experiences through childhood and adulthood.