The Rain Before It Falls
Publisher: Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: March 11, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780307268037
Subjects: English Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Family secrets; Reminiscing in old age
Description: 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.