When Rainbows Cry

by Rae Stoltenkamp

When you've just turned 14 and you're an impossibly lanky teenager with overlarge feet but no friends, what can you do to make your life suck just a little bit less than it already does?

This question consumes Petra Sucher. Frustrated by the lack of understanding she gets from her parents and their demands on her as unpaid childcare for her 4 year old twin brothers, she spends illicit hours in the Rainforest exhibit of her Domed city’s Natural History Museum. During one of her pre-dawn visits Petra finds a crystal figurine which orchestrates her meeting with an octogenarian and a gen-chimp called Tanda. Together, the three of them unwittingly create a triumvirate which will either destroy their existence or be the saving of it.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 24, 2017

About the author

Rae Stoltenkamp was born in South Africa. She came to England in 1987 to visit family and liked the wet weather so much she stayed. A few years later she went on a writing holiday in Greece where she had an epiphany as she realised she should be writing on a more full time basis. After studying writing at City Lit with the poet Caroline Natzler Rae published her first novel. She has branched out and now writes poetry too.