The Rain Before it Falls

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What to expect

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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