The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe

The Rain Before it Falls – Jonathan Coe’s heartbreaking novel of family secrets

Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years.

‘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

‘A sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters’ Guardian

‘Entirely compelling…the plot will keep you rapt…reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most effective’ New Statesman

Jonathan Coe’s novels are filled with moving, astute observations of life and love, and are written with a revealing honesty that has captivated a generation of readers. His other titles, The Accidental WomanThe Rotters’ Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed CircleThe Dwarves of DeathThe Terrible Privacy of Maxwell SimThe House of Sleep (winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), A Touch of Love, and What a Carve Up! (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), are all available in Penguin paperback.

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Hardcover

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ISBN

0141033215

Condition

Used Good

Language

English

Pages

288

Year Published

2008

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

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