History of the Rain

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
By the author of Four Letters of Love, the international bestseller now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan

'A love letter to literature and storytelling' Eimear McBride
'I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams' Ann Patchett

In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie Swain is trying to find her father through stories.

Brought home after a collapse, she lies surrounded by her father's library of three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight books. But Ruthie's story, and the story of the Swains before her, is rooted not in these books' pages, but in the land - fourteen rain-sodden acres of earth useless for farming, but teeming with stories.

From her bed, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil - and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.

'Extremely moving ... By the final chapter I was weeping' Sunday Times
'Dazzling ... Paragraph after paragraph begs you to stop and reread it, to relish the lilt of it in your inner ear' The Times
'Beautiful and enchanting ... A novel that weaves a love of literature into its own moving tale' Guardian

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781408852057
Published: March 2015

Number of pages: 368
Width: 130 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 24 mm

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC