One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris is having her first proper snog. Virginia Bergin is the author of H2O, which The Horn Book Magazine called 'Inspiring.' She lives in Bristol (UK). Ninety-seven percent of the population is dead. After rescuing all the neighbourhood dogs, Ruby sets off on a journey that will take her the length of the country – surviving in the only way she knows how. Read The Rain: The Rain Book 1 by Virginia Bergin available from Rakuten Kobo. The rain may not be the only thing to fear in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Ruby knows she has to get to London to find her dad, but she just doesn’t know where to start. Even a drop of rain would infect your blood, and eat you from the inside out. People weren’t prepared for the rain, got caught out in it, didn’t realize that you couldn’t drink water from the taps either. ' That was two weeks ago, and now Ruby is totally alone. Published On: The Rain is just wonderful, there is no. They turn on the radio to hear panicked voices – ‘It’s in the rain. Virginia Bergin's The Rain is unlike any apocalyptic novel I've read, mostly due to the hilarious and quirky but utterly believable narrator Ruby Morris. As she and Caspar shiver in the kitchen, it starts to rain. One minute sixteen-year-old Ruby Morris is having her first proper snog with Caspar McCloud in a hot tub, and the next she’s being bundled inside the house, dripping wet, cold and in her underwear. An apocalyptic thriller, The Rain by Virginia Bergin is a coming of age story of survival in a scary, weather-beaten world.