Cold Rain: the love story...

Molly didn't love by half-measures. She loved with all of her heart and expected the same. When things got really bad, she knew most men would just turn back and go home. But not the man she loved.

That was the deal in Molly's world. No matter how safe things got for her, she still understood love in this way: in a cold rain you were either there or you weren't.

COLD RAIN vacillates between moments of stark comedy and brooding menace, but in the end the story tells a love story about the demise of a 'perfect' marriage and the beginning of something far more genuine and pure.

Anecdotal by nature, the narrative moves with seeming randomness between David's cosy version of the past and the increasingly dangerous present, but quite gradually we begin to realise that David's crisis is forcing him to come to terms with a series of conflicts that he had managed to put away years ago without resolution.

The importance of the unresolved past also plays itself out in the marriage of David and Molly. Although they appear content at the beginning of the story, the events that nearly break their marriage apart uncover deep, untended wounds—whole pieces of their respective lives they have never openly discussed. In a story filled to the brim with lies and liars, David remarks quite pointedly to his stepdaughter Lucy that silence is the biggest lie of all, and it is that lie that David and Molly must finally confront.