Pure Colour

What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?

In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a portal - to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.

Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty.

'Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius.'

- Avni Doshi

'This one-of-a-kind novel... feels nothing less than vital.'

- Observer

'An original, a book that says something new for our difficult times.'

- Anne Enright, Guardian

'A treat.'

- Stylist