Sheltering RainOn Coronation night, the ex pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, twenty one year old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fianc again for a year. In 1980, eighteen year old Patricia's rebellion is to run away from County Wexford with her illegitimate child. Fifteen years later, Sabine leaves trendy Hackney to visit the grandparents