But the villagers view their friendship with suspicion. When Pea meets Claude, a neighbour who seems to love the meadow as she does, she wonders if he could be their new papa. Overwhelmed by grief, isolated from the other villagers, and pregnant again, Maman has withdrawn to a place where Pea cannot reach her, no matter how hard she tries. At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare, The Night Rainbow is a daring novel about a child faced with the baffling world of adult grief. Their mother is too sad to take care of them she left her happiness in the hospital last year, along with the first baby. Pea’s father died in an accident, and now she only has her little sister, Margot, for company. Under the sweltering heat of the summer sun, five-year-old Pea - and her vivid imagination - run wild in the meadows behind her home on the edge of a small village in Southern France.
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