The Rain Before it Falls"
- Jonathan Coes heartbreaking novel of family secrets. Deeply moving & 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 & tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen & the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers & daughters & of how sadness like a musical refrain may haunt us down the years. " Spectacular heartbreaking beautifully written. Rosamunds story is one of the most extraordinary & 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 & daughters". (" Guardian"). " Entirely compelling...the plot will keep you rapt...reminiscent of Ian Mc Ewan at his most effective". (" New Statesman"). Jonathan Coes novels are filled with moving astute observations of life & love & are written with a revealing honesty that has captivated a generation of readers. His other titles " The Accidental Woman" " The Rotters Club" (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize) " The Closed Circle" " The Dwarves of Death" " The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" " The House of Sleep" (winner of the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger) "A Touch of Love" & " What a Carve Up!" (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) are all available in Penguin paperback."