The Rain Before it Falls
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:26th Jun '14
Should be back in stock very soon
Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago.
'Please, God … if there’s a next life, let me write as well as Jonathan Coe' ANTHONY BOURDAIN
'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' NICK HORNBY
'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' BOB MORTIMER
Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child.
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Spectacular, heartbreaking, beautifully written. Rosamund's story is one of the most extraordinary and compelling you will ever read. Impossible to put down, I loved every minute of it * Sunday Express *
Entirely compelling . . . the plot will keep you rapt . . . reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most effective
* New Statesman *A sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters
* Guardian *A hauntingly melancholy tale of love and loss...a moving exploration of the inheritance of unhappiness, and the devestating consequences it can have for future generations * Daily Mail *
Potent and melancholy, like a short, sad song * Guardian *
A male writer who can enter such traditionally female territory and aquit himself with such aplomb * Sunday Telegraph *
Spectacular, heartbreaking, beautifully written. Rosamund's story is one of the most extraordinary and compelling you will ever read. Impossible to put down, I loved every minute of it * Sunday Express *
Entirely compelling . . . the plot will keep you rapt . . . reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most effective
* New Statesman *A sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters
* Guardian *A hauntingly melancholy tale of love and loss...a moving exploration of the inheritance of unhappiness, and the devestating consequences it can have for future generations * Daily Mail *
ISBN: 9780241967751
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 206g
288 pages