Come Rain or Come Shine

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone and now as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it.In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.