The rain before it falls
By: Jonathan Coe
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780753180983; 9780753180990
Subjects: Fiction; Large type books; Shropshire (England) - Fiction
Description: Rosamond 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 Imogen, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago.

At the centre of the narrative is Imogen's grandmother, Beatrix, whose flight from her husband after the war in search of freedom and excitement left a damaging legacy. Damaging to her own daughter and granddaughter, but also to Rosamond. She became caught up in the ensuing turmoil and found herself the beneficiary of a sudden, intense happiness; a happiness which was just as suddenly snatched away ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Viking, 2007.