Rain-Girl

The war left Richard Beresford with a riddle he cannot solve: how does a man return to his old life when that life no longer fits? After four years in the trenches, he abandons his career in the Foreign Office, sells his possessions, and becomes a wanderer through the English countryside. Then, on a rain-swept first day of his new existence, he glimpses a girl with enchanting grey eyes sitting on a gate and something in him awakens. They are separated before he learns her name, but now his aimless wandering has a purpose: to find her again. Set in the uncertain, grieving summer of 1919, this is a romantic comedy with an edge of melancholy, for the world has changed and so have the rules of love. Jenkins writes with wit and warmth about two people searching for each other in a England still learning to breathe again.