Rain

Bryan and Mary Talbot

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
01 October 2019

Graphic novels; Global warming

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.

By: Bryan and Mary Talbot
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 252mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 677g
ISBN: 9781787330481
ISBN 10: 1787330486
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bryan and Mary Talbot are the authors of Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, which won the Costa Biography Award in 2012, Sally Heathcote- Suffragette (with Kate Charlesworth) and The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia. Bryan Talbot is one of Britain's leading graphic novelists, most recently of the Grandville series. Mary Talbot is the author of several academic books about language and gender.

Reviews for Rain

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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