Green Grey Rain

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rain on iron rooftops. A radio streaming the latest hit songs. It's the early 1950s. The baby boom. Valarie is a talkative singing slanging pregnant daughter of the slums. Gilbert her husband is a well-spoken son of a landed family. They already have three kids. Gilbert has just taken a job as paymaster at a coal mine. The family is about to start life in a green and black and red township on the West Coast. A little boy is born almost in a taxi and named Stevan.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Green Grey rain tells the story of the first years of a little boy dreaming and singing wondering and wishing in the bush rain rust and sooty streets of 1950s Blackball. A story told by the boy. A story told too by the hit songs he hears on the radio. And a story told by his mother - someone who with her sister has already spoken to us in the pages of Oracles and Miracles. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stevan is one of New Zealand's most prolific writers with 24 books published (including histories novels and true tales) and numerous articles essays and short stories. He is an award-winning author a best-selling author yet still a humble and engaging author. </span></p>