The Rain Before it Falls
$32.84
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
‘Probably the best English novelist of his generation’ Nick Hornby
“What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.”
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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241967751 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241967759 |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
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
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 *About The Author
Jonathan Coe
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 Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger 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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