![]() Preparing their food, trying to keep the house clean and creating their own world in the meadows, hills, fields and down by the river. Those days are quickly slipping from her memory, these days Pea and Margot fend for themselves. ![]() Pea remembers the time before the lost baby, times when they all lived happily, with games and laughter, family meals and fruit picking. Heavily pregnant again, Maman spends her days sleeping. Maman is doubly grief-stricken, mourning both her lost baby and Pea's Papa who died in an accident. The girls live in an old, shabby farmhouse in rural France with their mother. ![]() ![]() This is the beginning of the story of The Night Rainbow, narrated by five-year-old Pea who is accompanied by her little sister Margot. "This all began when Maman came back from hospital last summer, but she didn't bring back a baby like she promised, she left it at the hospital, along with her happiness" ![]()
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