This novel employs a distinctive 'three-layered' structure, with an embedded narrative and is written in an entertaining conversational style. Primarily a coming-of-age story, it has strongly romantic elements, while trains and, of course, the rain have pivotal roles in the story. Readers are sure to be intrigued by the peculiar situations the lead characters often find themselves in. There is fun, chat, love, pain aplenty to be had in this novel "and, it rained again".