After the Rain
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After the Rain
(Macmillan Children's Books)
978-0333472040, RRP £2.50, Paperback
14+ Secondary/Adult
In the guise of a conventional American high school love story, this is a moving account of the growing relationship between a teenage girl and her grandfather during the last months of his life. Rachel comes, almost accidentally, to accompany him regularly on the daily walk he insists on continuing despite a fatal lung disease. Rachel is able to get closer to him without any loss of his dogged and often wilful character and the final scenes remain powerfully honest.