Publisher's Synopsis
He died with regrets. Now, in a land between life and death, Gareth must choose: cling to the fading memories of life-or risk them all for a chance to return.
When Gareth Edwards dies in a train crash, he awakens in The Meadow-a parallel world between life and death, where the pious preach penitence, the people are addicted to sucking marbles, and his own arrival threatens to disrupt the order of the universe. Hunted and on the run, Gareth joins a traveling circus, journeying through a world where cave dwellers archive Earth's disasters and an underground rebellion sends explorers on missions into treacherous mountains. But behind the spectacle, something far more dangerous is stirring-a force that reaches into Gareth's past and beyond this world entirely. Death was only the beginning. The true journey starts now. The Rains Came Down is the first unforgettable adventure in Julian Shaw's dazzling multiverse series-steeped in the eerie, dreamlike tradition of British fantasy, where wonder and menace walk hand in hand. If you grew up on Pullman's His Dark Materials, wandered through the uncanny worlds of Alan Garner or Susan Cooper, or loved R. F. Kuang's Babel, The Meadow Series invites you into a new reading adventure both thrillingly strange and quietly familiar at heart. Defy destiny.Fight authority.
Unite worlds. Buy The Rains Came Down today and embark on your own journey into The Meadow.
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