The Rain Before it Falls

As a young girl Rosamond is sent to Shropshire to escape the Blitz. Here in the countryside she forms a close bond with her older cousin Beatrix a young woman haunted by anger and resentment.Sixty years later just before her death Rosamond records her memories on cassettes addressing them to a distant cousina near stranger-named Imogen. As Gill her beloved niece listens to these tapes a heartstopping family saga is revealed. In this masterful portrait of three generations of woman Jonathan Coe exposes the profound reserves of hope and loss within the lives of ordinary woman.