![]() ![]() ![]() Pea might be all but invisible to Maman, but Claude, a man who lives in the neighbourhood sees her and makes small efforts to make Pea's life a little bit better. Pea and Margot's big project is finding a way of making Maman happy again. In the French summer, the two girls run wild, while Maman is too busy lying down, tending to her own grief to worry about food and clothes for her living children. She and her 4-years-old sister Margot try to make a life for themselves in the aftermath of Papa's death, and their pregnant Maman grieving him and a child she recently lost. The prose is deceptively simple, as the story is told by Pea who is 5 and a half. A small shining literary pearl, The Night Rainbow is simply so beautiful, so sad and so warming that you want to keep it in your heart forever. ![]() This is the book that I'll recommend to anyone and everyone this year. ![]()
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