Oh Look, It’s Raining – Paperback

Alice s father is a weirdo. He treasures his military books and talks fondly of life Before-the-War. Alice s mother is fed up. Increasingly elusive, there s something she s hiding. Alice is different. Alice is a writer. When a Jewish girl named Leah Shapiro starts at school, Alice falls in love with her busy, lively family and their stories of survival. As the two friends go from school to university and Alice enrols in creative writing, Leah s stories become the imaginative well she returns to. This is a warm-hearted novel about horrors real and imagined, the family you inherit and the one you choose, and the stories you are entitled to tell.