The Rain Before It Falls

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I ÁM REÁGHING- THE END OF MY LIFE AND FOR REASONS WHICH WIll, I HOPE, BECOME APPARENT, I FEE1 AN OBLIGÁTION TOWARDS YOÜ . . . WHAT I WANT YOU TO HAVE, IMOGEN, IS A SENSE OF YOÜR OWN HISTORY. f As seventy-three-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one iast duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of twenty photographs which between them ír' teli a tragic family history. At the centre of her narrative is Imogen's grandmother, Beatrix, whose flight from her husband after the war in search of freedom and excitement left a damaging legacy: damaging to her own daughter and granddaughter, but alsó to Rosamond herself, when she became caught up in the ensuing turmoil and found herself the beneficiary of a sudden, intense happiness which was just as suddenly snatched away. The Rain Before It Falls is extremely... Tovább

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I ÁM REÁGHING- THE END OF MY LIFE AND FOR REASONS WHICH WIll, I HOPE, BECOME APPARENT, I FEE1 AN OBLIGÁTION TOWARDS YOÜ . . . WHAT I WANT YOU TO HAVE, IMOGEN, IS A SENSE OF YOÜR OWN HISTORY. f As seventy-three-year-old Rosamond sits alone in her remote Shropshire house, her dying thoughts turn to her cousin's granddaughter, Imogen, who has been blind from an early age. Rosamond realizes that she has one iast duty to perform: to describe on tape, for Imogen's benefit, a series of twenty photographs which between them ír' teli a tragic family history. At the centre of her narrative is Imogen's grandmother, Beatrix, whose flight from her husband after the war in search of freedom and excitement left a damaging legacy: damaging to her own daughter and granddaughter, but alsó to Rosamond herself, when she became caught up in the ensuing turmoil and found herself the beneficiary of a sudden, intense happiness which was just as suddenly snatched away. The Rain Before It Falls is extremely moving in its portrayal of the fleeting nature of love and happiness. But above all it's a compelling exploration of what goes to make a child: the legacies of character and history which are handed from one generation to the next. was born in Birmingham in 1961. He has published seven novels, all of which are available in Penguin: TheAccidental Woman, A Touch ofLove, The Dwarves ofDeath, What a Carve Up!} The House ofSleep, The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle. His biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson, Llke a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Sámuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year. Vissza