The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
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.
Spectacular, heartbreaking, beautifully writtenRosamund'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 *
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 *
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 *
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241967751 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241967759 |
| Title | The Rain Before it Falls |
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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