The River Rumbles

Content : A young girl’s life is turned upside down when she joins environmental activists campaigning against the construction of a shopping centre.

Sonia, a brilliant final-year student, sees her school flooded during torrential rain. And now, a shopping-centre project threatens to put the town at even greater risk. When she meets a group of environmental activists opposed to the development, she discovers that her older brother is among them. By joining their cause, she discovers a different way of being in the world — one that is connected to the land and committed to protecting it. Little by little, her commitment deepens, transforming her vision of the world and of her own future.

When awareness and commitment turn everything upside down. A story of environmental resistance that explores the link between protecting biodiversity and preserving a town’s social fabric. The author draws on her extensive experience in the environmental activist movement.

About the author: Born in the United States, Jennifer Dalrymple grew up near Paris, before living in Italy for ten years and eventually returning to France, where she now lives. Writing and ecology have always been her two great passions, and they have almost always come together in her books and stories. After several decades working across fairy tales, picture books and adventure stories, she is delighted to be able, this time, to tackle the subject of environmental activism head-on through this novel.