BOOK TOUR STOP x Random Things Tours - After the Rain by Lucy Dillon

A freak flood has decimated the lives of the small community of Longhampton, and that isn't the only storm that has swept through Taransay's life recently. Her boyfriend has almost disappeared, her family is falling apart and she's trying her best as a therapist to help everyone in town recover from the tragedy.

On top of that, her estranged father seems to have blown in with the wind and a new counsellor at her wellness centre who appeared out of nowhere seems far too interested in getting to know her. But she doesn't even know who she is right now, and the last thing she needs is David - with his charm and infectious smile getting the way.

She's drowning, but if she can just weather this storm who knows will happen after the rain clears ...

"I'm not the little girl you left. I'm much better and much worse than her."

After The Rain is an undeniably charming story - dealing with serious and devastating events but brimming with light and glittering with hope for the future.

Dealing with not only the devastating aftermath of natural disaster, we go on a journey with Tara to weave through her deeply complicated family relationships, the loss of her beloved Mother, a boyfriend who she isn't sure is ever coming back, an accidentally acquired somewhat evil cat and the long road of trying to piece together who she is underneath it all.

I adore the way Lucy Dillon captures how important and wonderful our animal companions can be throughout our lives and the love between a young girl and their pet - it's definitely something special.

This book moves slowly and quietly but definitely picks up along the way - there were a few parts of the story that felt awkwardly out of place for me and I wasn't sure how to take them but overall, this is one of those stories that always leaves you with a warm fuzzy glow long after the last page is turned.

CW; Death, Flood, Infidelity, Broken Families, Addiction.

About The Author

Sunday Times bestselling author Lucy Dillon grew up in Cumbria and read English at Cambridge, then read a lot of magazines as a press assistant in London, then read other people's manuscripts as a junior fiction editor. She now lives in a village outside Hereford with a Border terrier, an otterhound and her husband. Lucy won the Romantic Novelists' Association Contemporary Romantic Novel prize in 2015 for A HUNDRED PIECES OF ME, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2010 for LOST DOGS AND LONELY HEARTS.

You can find her on Twitter (@lucy_dillon) and Instagram (@lucydillonbooks).

Thank you to Transworld Books and Anne at Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part in this tour. I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

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