The Rain

Book cover for 'The Rain'
Genre Children's

Published

Jul 2014
  • UK Pan Macmillan

One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris is having her first proper snog with Caspar McLoud in a hot tub, and the next she's being bundled inside the house, dripping wet, cold and in her underwear. Not cool.

As she and Caspar shiver in the kitchen, it starts to rain. They turn on the radio to hear panicked voices- "It's in the rain...it's in the rain..." That was two weeks ago, and now Ruby is totally alone. People weren't prepared for the rain, got caught out in it, didn't realise that you couldn't drink water from the taps. Even a drip of rain infects your blood and eats you from the inside out. Ruby knows she has to get to London to find her dad, but she just doesn't know where to start... After rescuing all the neighbourhood dogs, Ruby sets off on a journey that will take her the length of the country- surviving in the only way she knows how.

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