Kirsty Gunn / Rain (Hardback)

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The debut of an astonishing new literary talent, Rain proves that it's young author, Kirsty Gunn, is already a master of her craft. Delivered with painful sensitivity and poetic grace, it tells an utterly hypnotic story.

Twelve-year-old Janey spends summers at a lake with her family. In the languor of the long, hot days, she and her younger brother are left alone to play together and comfort each other while their parents entertain friends. Balancing on the tenuous thread of their parents' attention, ignored for long stretches and then called upon suddenly to mix drinks or awakened in the middle of the night by drunken kisses, the children huddle together in tender, compulsive closeness. Nourished only by their unspoken devotion to one another, the two fill their neglected hours exploring the lush summer landscape and protecting each other from the unpredictable moods of the dark adult world that surrounds them.

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