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I will unashamedly admit that when I began reading The Boy Who Made It Rain, I was utterly flabbergasted. I began reading it early in the morning and I didn't put it down until I had finished it that evening, and though it's only 196 pages long, this is perhaps one of the most compelling novels I've ever read.

The premise of the book is of the relocation of a family from Eastbourne to Glasgow, and of the stigma faced by the son as he tries to settle into the local school.…

A tragedy for the times heads this review of The Boy Who Made it Rain in TES Scotland:

".. about issues that beset every generation - misunderstandings between the sexes, between age groups, between people raised in different social environments. It is about the difficulty of holding on to one’s own identity in the…

The Sunday Mail, a Scottish newspaper, reports Brian Conaghan's new book The Boy Who Made it Rain.  The book is set in a Glaswegian secondary school.

MFM book reviews interviews the furry creature who stars in Anna Cuffaro's story Gatwick Bear and the Secret Plans 

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