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.
Hardback, 160 pages.
Rain - Bryan and Mary Talbot
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£15.99