The Power of Rain

by Tilly Grey

Set in the late 1950s, Jenny, a teenage girl struggling with systemic Lupus, meets Ethan Mathis, a Holocaust survivor, in a New York City hospital. The two meet again on an ocean liner carrying them to different destinations: He to teach for a year in Rome, she to enter an experimental medical program in a Swiss hospital. From then, their lives intertwine.
Rich with historical details, the story tells how Ethan survives in a World War II prisoner camp, and how Jenny survives by entering her fantasy world. Their burgeoning friendship eventually changes their lives. Woven among the story are fascinating points of culture as both young and old characters experience very human needs.
Adding mystery, and compelling Ethan and Jenny forward, is the search for Ruth, his younger sister, who was lost in the death camp – or was she?

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About the Author

Tilly Grey was born in New York City to documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz and Broadway star, Sally Bates. Diagnosed with a a debilitating disease in her teens, Grey’s mother moved her and the family to Italy seeking specialized medical care for her.

She returned to America in her twenties and wrote for small newspapers in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and California. She married a newspaperman, but after a divorce, she returned East and spent twenty years teaching high school with disaffected young people while raising four children including one with Down’s Syndrome.

After the death of her second husband, Tilly worked for the low-cost housing mission, Habitat for Humanity International in their Georgia headquarters for six years before being asked to go to Africa to report on Habitat’s work there. For the next five years, she roamed throughout east and southern Africa writing for Habitat’s magazine, Habitat World.

Now retired in Florida, Tilly races thoroughbred horses and writes. In 2006, she published a bout about her time in Africa, On the Path With Heart.  Currently, she is working on a sequel to her historical fiction, The Power of Rain.