"Set against the backdrop of disastrous flooding in the North of England, Rain ... chronicles the developing relationship between two young women, one of whom is a committed environmental campaigner. Their wild Brontèe moorland is being criminally mismanaged. Birds and animals are being slaughtered. Across the country, crops are being systematically poisoned--even the soil itself"--

Mary M. Talbot is a British academic who specializes in language, gender, and power, and is the author of Language and Gender, second edition. In 2012 she wrote her first graphic novel, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, illustrated by her husband, artist Bryan Talbot, which won the Costa Biography Award. She went on to publish Sally Heathcote: Suffragette (2014) and The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia (2016).

Bryan Talbot is a British comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright; its sequel, Heart of Empire; and the award-winning The Tale of One Bad Rat. He collaborated with his wife, Mary M. Talbot, to produce Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, which won the 2012 Costa biography award.