Rain

By: Bryan and Mary Talbot

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Hardcover | 1 October 2019

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160 Pages

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25.0 x 17.7 x 2.1

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A beautiful love story with an impassioned environmental message, from the Costa-award-winning author duo

A stunning new graphic novel and rallying cry to protect the planet, from the Costa-award-winning authors of Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

Set against the backdrop of disastrous flooding in the North of England, Rain dramatically chronicles the developing relationship between two young women, one of whom is a committed environmental campaigner. Their wild Bronte moorland is being criminally mismanaged. Birds and animals are being slaughtered. Across the country, crops are being systematically poisoned, even the soil itself. Rain centres on one relatively small example of moorland ownership by an elite group that impacts catastrophically on the unlanded majority living in the valley below. But the campaigners know that 'a million other valleys need saving'. They need saving not just for the sake of their human inhabitants, but for the insects and plants, birds and mammals and all the other inhabitants large and small that we share this planet with - our non-human fellow earthlings.

Rain is the first contemporary graphic novel from Bryan and Mary Talbot, dealing with the here and now of environmental degradation that threatens us all. The story follows the everyday experiences of ordinary people, while engaging with pollution, climate change, moorland mismanagement and the disruption, misery and loss that these things bring. The characters are fictitious; what's happening around them is shockingly real.

Industry Reviews

An inspiring cry of protest...[by] two of Britain's finest graphic novelists. -- James Smart * Guardian *
Moving and authentic... among Bryan Talbot's very best - this is graphic art you can lose yourself in... worth recommending ten times over. * Bookmunch *

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