The Night Rainbow

The Night Rainbow is the story of Pea (Peony to her English mother, Pivoine to her French father), the world she creates to win back her mother's love, and the stranger she trusts to save them both

"Five-year-old Pea (shortened from her French name, Pivoine) and her eerily precocious younger sister, Margot, are left to their own devices for most of one oppressively hot summer in the French countryside after their father is killed in a farm accident and their pregnant and deeply depressed mother takes to her bed."--Library Journal.

An original, beguiling debut about the consequences of an imaginatively lived life

Vorwort
The Night Rainbow is the story of Pea (Peony to her English mother, Pivoine to her French father), the world she creates to win back her mother's love, and the stranger she trusts to save them both

Autorentext
Claire King has found success and acclaim with her prize-winning short stories. Having graduated from Cambridge she now lives and works in France. The Night Rainbow is her first novel. www.claire-king.com @ckingwriter

Klappentext

A debut novel set in the south of France, by a prize-winning short story writer. Tells the captivating story of Pea (Peony to her English mother, Pivoine to her French father), the world she creates to win back her mother's love, and the stranger she trusts to save them both. Elegantly written, haunting, and incredibly gripping, this is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion, and the dangers of an overactive imagination.

Zusammenfassung
'Emotional and beautifully written, you'll be on tenterhooks throughout' Stylist 'Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it' Joanne Harris 'At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare' Maggie O'Farrell _ During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the village by her Englishness, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach her - although she tries desperately to do so. Then Pea meets Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does and who always has time to play. Pea believes that she and Margot have found a friend, and maybe even a new papa. But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? And what secret is he keeping in his strange, empty house? Elegantly written, haunting and gripping, The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion and the dangers of an overactive imagination.