{"product_id":"green-grey-rain-by-stevan-eldred-grigg","title":"Green Grey Rain by Stevan Eldred-Grigg","description":"\u003cp\u003eRain 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStevan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43483550875722,"sku":"1705ad","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/1705ad.jpg?v=1775535934","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/green-grey-rain-by-stevan-eldred-grigg","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}