Hanna's Rain

A title to be included in every literary YA catalogue

Josefin is loyal and dependable – and is often simply overlooked. When new student Hanna joins the class, Josefin hopes she'll finally have a friend. But Hanna is quiet and stand-offish. It takes time to develop a tenuous friendship with her. It's clear to Josefin that something's not right about Hanna. Is she in danger? Does she need protection? Or is it that Hanna is not actually who she says she is?

The themes of friendship, lying, and identity are at the center of the novel, and again and again, the first-person narrator expresses her yearning for a different, seemingly better life. But what is that really – your one true life?