The Small Rain

Name: The Small Rain
ISBN: 9780374519124

Madeleine L'Engle

1945·371 pages·young adult

Literary Fiction

coming of age self discovery

“Katherine advances to young womanhood, her heart as well as her talent is promisingly engaged”
— Publishers Weekly

Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult books include A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Certain Women. The Small Rain, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves through loves and losses. Katherine is a child growing up in a refined, yet bohemian, artistic ambience--theatrical as well as musical . . . . adolescence is lonely and difficult, but as Katherine advances to young womanhood, her heart as well as her talent is promisingly engaged.

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