The rain before it falls
by Jonathan Coe
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A family saga examines the events and relationships that bind three generations of women, as the elderly Rosamond records her memories of her troubled cousin Beatrix and the tragedy that transformed all of their lives.
"..Jonathan Coe offers a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toronto, and southern France at the turn of the new century." - Publisher description.
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The rain before it falls
2008, Alfred A. Knopf
in English
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0307268039 9780307268037
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The rain before it falls
2008, ISIS Large Print
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The Rain Before It Falls
March 11, 2008, Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf
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Originally published in Great Britain by Viking, 2007.
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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. Called "the best English novelist of his generation" by Nick Hornby, Jonathan Coe extends his range in this magnificent account of a Shropshire family in the last half of the twentieth century.
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