The World Between the Rain with Susan Cahill 

In Susan Cahill’s children’s novel The World Between the Rain, Marina has vanished to a world of gods and demons just when her family need her most. It’s the week before Halloween and Marina is about to turn thirteen. Her father died a year ago. Her mother has strangely fallen asleep and no-one can wake her. She is sent to live with her mysterious grandmother, Ursula who tells her that that you can enter a strange world between the ever falling rain in the west of Ireland. Marina enters a haunting watery world full of strange creatures, demons and gods. Meanwhile, in our world a strange sleeping sickness has taken over. This is a haunting fantasy thriller that is also about grief and letting go of the demons inside yourself.

‘As portals to others worlds go, the West Cork Rain is up there with Platform 9 3/4 and the wardrobe into Narnia in terms of imaginative plot devices as Clonakilty native Susan Cahill takes a deep dive in to grief in this surreal floating fantasy, co-starring some curious chattering frogs.’ Irish Examiner