The property of rain - Angela Lambert

She shows us the lives of real, sympathetic people, keeping us enthralled until the end.
DAILY EXPRESS
It is 1921, two children are born, six thousand miles apart.
Sam Savage, the youngest child of a farm worker, grows up in a tranquil Suffolk village where apparent serenity hides poverty, hunger and brutality.
Lakshmi is the unwanted fourth daugher of a sweeper and his wife living near Kanpur in north-west India, in a settlement of Untouchables.
At the age of fifteen these two come together in extreme circumstances, in the midst of the monsoon - an encounter that will have tragic and lifelong consequences.
Back in Suffolk seventeen years later, the rains return to bring about appalling retribution.