I'm just letting down my umbrella and sheltering to stop and tell you about this poignant read.

Detangling the plot:
Two strangers
Jack was sporty and outgoing. Alice was bookish and introverted. Their lives were on completely different paths.
One life-changing tragedy
That is before the day they were in the wrong place at the wrong time: before the day their lives were torn apart in a bombing.
A hopeful new friendship
Struggling to cope with their new worlds, their unlikely new friendship helps them find hope. But can they help each other rebuild their lives and start again?
Bobs and Books honest review: This was not at all what I was expecting, but in a good way. I expected some cheesy encounter, slushy, teenage crushes, awkwardness and living happily ever after.
A chance encounter where Jack and Alice just happen to bump into each other in Leicester Square and both are affected by a bomb. Both try to heal emotionally and physically and both take a very different turn in how they respond. Jack more physical and Alice more psychological.
This tackles those difficult issues of mental health, PTSD, recovering from trauma and how different people can react so differently to a trauma. Jack and Alice face their own battles but link up to try and support each other where they can. It is sweet, emotional, poignant and ever so poetic (enhanced further with Alice's actual poems.)
Definitely thought provoking, emotional and I was eager to know the next chapters of their life.
After The Rain out NOW.
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