The Rain Before it Falls

Author Jonathan Coe
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 4 July 2019
Run Time 7 hours and 11 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Family life fiction, Generational sagas, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Rain Before it Falls written by Jonathan Coe, read by Jenny Agutter.

'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 is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child.

Critics Review

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

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