Women’s fiction and romance author Lilian Darcy has written more than ninety novels for Tule Publishing Group, Harlequin, Silhouette, Mira Australia, Mills & Boon. Under another name she has also written for Australian theater and television. Lilian’s career highlights include many appearances on the Waldenbooks Romance Bestsellers list, five nominations for the Romance Writers of America’s presitious Rita Award, and translation into twenty different languages. Lilian and her husband have an active family life involving kids, chickens, cats, music, scouting, gardening, hiking, cycling and horses.
It has been a long time since a book made me choke up at the end. After the Rain is one of those stories not easily forgotten. It is introspective and, at times, achingly beautiful in its exploration of the characters’ struggles to come to terms with their shared loss. No one finds the answers they are looking for. But that is the point of the story: there are no answers to find – or at least not ones that end in some sort of satisfying, convenient revelation. This was a delicate topic to tackle, and the author handled it wonderfully, with honesty and respect.
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