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La pioggia prima che cada

by Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author), Delfina Vezzoli (Translator)

3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 · rating details · 1,832 ratings · 256 reviews

La zia Rosamond non c' è più. È morta nella sua casa nello Shropshire, dove viveva sola, dopo l'abbandono di Rebecca e la morte di Ruth, la pittrice che è stata la sua ultima compagna. A trovare il cadavere è stato il suo medico. Aveva settantatré anni ed era malata di cuore, ma non aveva mai voluto farsi fare un by-pass. Quando è morta, stava ascoltando un disco di canti...more

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Published July 5th 2007 by Feltrinelli (first published 2007)

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Feb 10, 2009 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The title of this novel, "The Rain Before It Falls," is a metaphor for those things that exist just beyond our experience, patterns that elude us, meanings we can't yet grasp. Coe uses as narrator the voice of a woman, Rosamond, describing twenty family photos into a tape recorder, before she takes pills and ends her life. Rosamond tells the story of four women, mothers and daughters, and the tragedy that silently passes from one to another. This melancholy book powerfully traces the way ghosts...more

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Feb 19, 2008 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This beautifully written book takes the form of an oral narrative, recorded on a set of cassettes discovered beside the body of Rosamund, an elderly woman who has killed herself rather than let cancer do the job for her. It's the story of Rosamund's entanglement with her cousin Beatrix, a thoroughly self-centred and manipulative individual,and several generations of Beatrix's family.

As Rosamund's niece, Gill, listens to the tapes, she learns of the emotional disaster area that was Beatrix's lif...more

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Sep 15, 2007 Joanna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: numerous people

Gosh, so interesting, such a strong bluesy mood to it, even if a bit slight as indeed the critics complain. But just so beautifully sustained and with such a cool feeling of the experimental about it--I wonder if Coe is feeling more experimental these days since his biography of B.S. Johnson? Anyhow, I read in a Guardian review that Coe took his inspiration from the novels of Rosamond Lehmann--which makes me want to go back and read Lehmann all over again (ahh, Dusty Answer). I found myself fasc...more

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Sep 20, 2009 Georg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Difficult to rate and review. In the end I was a little bit disappointed. Big mysteries are announced but eventually not revealed. A lot of characters appear on the show and I recommand a written diagram for all the daughters, grand-daughters, uncles and aunts from several generations and decades. Though I did not quite understand for what purpose Coe made it as complicated as he did. He could have dropped at least 50 % of his staff without spoiling the plot. But maybe this is not a solid argume...more

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Mar 31, 2008 doreen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Incredibly beautiful and melancholy, which seems to be quite the undercurrent in Jonathan Coe's books that I've read. I devoured this book in the course of a few days, and it was well-worth it.

The book is about a family tragedy carried down through generations, and the woman who was connected to the family, much to the effect of the events haunting her deeply later.

Jonathan Coe is adept at telling human dramas that could easily seem quaint with another writer, but he makes it into beauty. The wr...more

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Jul 20, 2008 Maureen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I liked this better than The Closed Circle and The Rotters Club, but not as much as What a Carve Up, Like a Fiery Elephant or the The House of Sleep.

Perhaps because I've read so much Jonathan Coe at this stage, I'm overly familiar and never engaged with the characters as being anything other than his latest fictional inventions. For what was a very sad story, I never got weepy.

But I thought the central theme - misery being handed down the generations, deepening like a coastal shelf - was movin...more

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Sep 15, 2011 ilaria rated it 4 of 5 stars

La storia di una famiglia, spesso problematica, raccontata attraverso la decrizione di alcune fotografie scattate nell'arco di un mezzo secolo.
Ogni fotografia è un "quadro": riporta alla memoria visi, atteggiamenti, luoghi, ma soprattutto situazioni e sentimenti vissuti quasi sempre in prima persona dalla voce narrante.
È una storia nella storia: inizia ai giorni nostri, ma ti fa piombare, all'improvviso, in un periodo storico precedente.
Nella prima parte ho accusato una certa fatica a farmi coin...more

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Nov 18, 2010 Isairon rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: letteratura-straniera

Che tristezza. E’ il sentimento che mi rimane tra le dita chiudendo l’ultima pagina di questo libro.

La storia di quattro generazione di donne. Legate da un vincolo di parentela e soprattutto dall’assenza di amore familiare. Assenza di affetti che ha portato, generazione in generazione, a scelte sbagliate, estreme, rapporti superficiali e mendaci. Almeno fino all’ultima nata, Imogen. Figlia di tutti questi errori. L’unica ad essere marchiata fin da piccola da un episodio violento che le cambierà...more

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Jan 21, 2009 Stop added it · review of another edition

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Jonathan Coe’s The Rain Before It Falls is told largely in the words of the elderly Rosamund, who records the narrative on four audiocassettes while consuming a fatal dose of Valium and Scotch at her home in Shropshire, England. In her will, she has instructed her niece Gill to track down her cousin Beatrix’s granddaughter, Imogen, and deliver the tapes to her. The objective is to give Imogen “a sense of where you came from, and of the for...more

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Aug 14, 2012 Joan Adamak rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It Takes More Than Love to Hold a Relationship Together

This is a non-fiction memoir of the love between the author, Luisita, and Elizabeth Blake Whitney, who eventually divorced her husband after meeting Luisita. As editor on the Foreign Desk, Luisita helped reporters by editing their reports and making them more interesting and readable. Elizabeth, hired as a rookie reporter for overseas reporting, spent much time with Luisita, learning from Luisita’s editing. From the time they met, Luisita wa...more It Takes More Than Love to Hold a Relationship Together

This is a non-fiction memoir of the love between the author, Luisita, and Elizabeth Blake Whitney, who eventually divorced her husband after meeting Luisita. As editor on the Foreign Desk, Luisita helped reporters by editing their reports and making them more interesting and readable. Elizabeth, hired as a rookie reporter for overseas reporting, spent much time with Luisita, learning from Luisita’s editing. From the time they met, Luisita was interested in Elizabeth, having been at loose ends for several months after a former relationship soured.

Being assigned mostly to southeast Asia, eventually Elizabeth landed the Manila/Philippines area after Marcos had been ejected and Cory Aquino installed. By that time, Luisita and Elizabeth had become interested in each other and since it seemed that Elizabeth would be spending many months in Manila, Luisita took a year’s absence from her job and flew to Manila to be with Elizabeth. She also intended to support herself by writing a book, but she never really settled down to do that. For the next year, the two women got to know each other, or thought they did, and thrived in the excitement of the rebellion of the Philippines, finding new places to rent, shopping for furniture and socializing often with other foreign reporters. They never lived together as a normal every day hum-drum life. Luisita was more aggressive in pushing the relationship, while Elizabeth wasn’t sure about divorcing her husband.

After a year, Luisita had to return to her job in the States because she needed to support herself and couldn’t find any overseas job. They phoned each other constantly and wrote long letters. Elizabeth was the more reticent of the two in the relationship, but eager, active and fun whether on the job or in a group. Luisita, when dissatisfied with her work (which was most of the time when she couldn’t get back overseas as a reporter, moped, gradually alienating herself from Elizabeth and refused to take heed of Elizabeth’s complaints, although she knew she was unhappy.

This story, well written, demonstrates that many of the same problems that destroy heterosexual relationships, also does so with same sex relationships for the same reasons. Luisita spends much of her time in the book in retrospect of their relationship, but never seemed to realize that perhaps she remained extremely stubborn in her self-pity until it drove Elizabeth away.

Many women, especially, I think, will truly enjoy this book because it simply and clearly shows what can tear apart any relationship when more maturity is not exercised. I recommend it to all readers who enjoy this type of love story.
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Aug 09, 2012 Alison Newell rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my first Jonathan Coe novel. Let me say straight away that his structure and style are very engaging and that this is a beautifully readable and enjoyable novel. I'll certainly be looking out for more of his books.

The blurb on the back intrigued me but turned out to be rather misleading. Coe's concept - a family story revealed through photographs and the taped narration of a dying woman - only promised to be half the story and I expected the remaining family members, briefly sketched, a...more

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Jul 12, 2012 Sakura87 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: autori-inglesi, introspettivo, duemila, non-in-libreria

L'anziana zia Rosamond è morta nella sua solitaria abitazione nello Shropshire, dopo un'intensa vita di ricordi.
Terminato il funerale, la nipote Gill, mettendo a posto la casa dell'anziana, s'imbatte in alcune cassette presumibilmente registrate dalla zia poco prima di morire, e che costituiscono parte del lascito destinato alla misteriosa Imogen, nominata da Rosamond nel suo testamento.
Gill ricorda di aver conosciuto la piccola Imogen (ora trentenne) al cinquantesimo compleanno della zia, una g...more L'anziana zia Rosamond è morta nella sua solitaria abitazione nello Shropshire, dopo un'intensa vita di ricordi.
Terminato il funerale, la nipote Gill, mettendo a posto la casa dell'anziana, s'imbatte in alcune cassette presumibilmente registrate dalla zia poco prima di morire, e che costituiscono parte del lascito destinato alla misteriosa Imogen, nominata da Rosamond nel suo testamento.
Gill ricorda di aver conosciuto la piccola Imogen (ora trentenne) al cinquantesimo compleanno della zia, una graziosissima bimbetta purtroppo cieca, e si industria per ritrovarla, ma gli sforzi congiunti suoi e delle figlie non producono risultati. Scoraggiata, decide, insieme alle ragazze, di ascoltare le cassette.
La voce di zia Rosamond, di un'anziana signora ormai alle soglie della morte, risuona nella stanza: la donna vuole lasciare a quelle cassette le sue memorie perché Imogen possa conoscere le sue vere origini, quindi, dopo aver scelto venti fotografie che riassumono ogni fase della sua vita, cerca al meglio di descriverle perché anche una bambina cieca possa vederle con gli occhi della mente.
Tutto inizia così, da una foto in bianco e nero che ritrae la piccola Rosamond sul vialetto di casa...

Capitolo dopo capitolo, la straordinaria e commovente storia di una vita tragica, segnata dall'impossibilità di spezzare un vincolo di violenza e d'indifferenza che si tramanda da madre a figlia, e a cui Rosamond tenta di porre rimedio senza mai riuscirvi.
La scrittura di Coe è diretta, espressiva, evocativa: la sua penna descrive con vividezza impressionante venti fotografie, che sono il simbolo, il segno, di venti epoche diverse. Con estremo tatto sfiora argomenti delicati quali l'omosessualità femminile, l'incomunicabilità familiare, gli squilibri psichici, ricamando una storia che appare velata da pioggia nostalgica.
Un romanzo in pieno stile inglese, che discretamente comunica nel lettore un mesto senso di ineluttabile tragicità, la quale diviene via via più palpabile con il proseguire della storia, fino al giungere dell'inevitabile conclusione.(less)

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Apr 22, 2012 Mike Hine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Simple and powerfully melancholic in places, The Rain Before It Falls is an enticing read which does occasionally get bogged down in its own sentimentality. This book is essentially a life story/family history, delivered posthumously by the late Rosamond via cassette tapes recorded just before her her suicide, picked up by niece Gill.

Rosamond's tale is a bleak one, exploring a repeated pattern of mother/daughter relationships gone bitterly wrong down one bloodline. Coe is interested in psycholo...more Simple and powerfully melancholic in places, The Rain Before It Falls is an enticing read which does occasionally get bogged down in its own sentimentality. This book is essentially a life story/family history, delivered posthumously by the late Rosamond via cassette tapes recorded just before her her suicide, picked up by niece Gill.

Rosamond's tale is a bleak one, exploring a repeated pattern of mother/daughter relationships gone bitterly wrong down one bloodline. Coe is interested in psychological disturbances within middle-class families in mid-20th century Britain. Female isolation and the prejudices of the era are dealt with delicately and convincingly. The male characters in the novel are frequently distant and aloof, pre-occupied by their career or interested only in extra-marital concerns. Women are pigeonholed and stereotyped only as mothers and housewives. The need to maintain the charade of respectability and regularity is what foments much of the psychological grief of the suffering women. Unwanted children and the shackles of loveless marriage take their toll with scarring consequences.

The familial breakdown Rosamond witnesses all around her is concurrent with her own social ostracision on account of her homosexuality. The only moment of optimism in novel, when Rosamond and her partner act as foster parents to the young girl Thea, is depressingly shattered by the prejudice and ignorance of those around her.

The novel is poignant and emotionally rich but its short length and expertly constructed prose stop it becoming too much of a burden. I found it difficult to get on board with immediately, as the book quickly throws the reader into the midst of a highly detailed and personal life story without providing much of an introduction. It is perhaps self-repetitious in its themes and, unless the reader commits fully into the narrowly and inwardly focused family history presented here, its sentimentality might lack in impact. Nonetheless, an interesting bitesize novel.

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Mar 03, 2012 Felice rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It is a death that sets Jonathan Coe’s novel The Rain BeforeIt Falls in motion but in the novel it isn’t always death that is the worst life has to offer. Coe’s story is a family saga where wretchedness begets wretchedness through successive generations.

As a little girl Rosamund is evacuated from London and sent to live on the Shropshire farm of her aunt and uncle. Once there she forms a deep bond with her cousin Beatrix who is horribly emotionally abused by her mother. The repercussions of Bea...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Paolo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Jonathan Coe ha un talento particolare e circolare nel ripercorrere generazioni e stagioni dell'esistenza. La sua scrittura costruisce immagini con una forza morbida e seduttiva, e lo stratagemma narrativo de La pioggia prima che cada si basa forse non a caso in venti istantanee (diciannove fotografie e un ritratto) attraverso le quali la protagonista ricostruisce la sua vita, affidando a un vecchio registratore su nastro le parole, i ricordi e le emozioni che ognuno di quei frammenti iconografi...more

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Feb 01, 2011 Tim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-british-fiction, reviewed

My review of this wonderful book:

The Rain Before It Falls
By Jonathan Coe (Knopf, 256 pages, $23.95)

From its cryptically beautiful title to its subtly riveting narrative, from its amazing narrative voice to its satisfying and moving conclusion, this new novel from Jonathan Coe—his eighth—is a triumph. The Rain Before It Falls starts as a kind of autobiography of Rosamond, not written but recorded on an aging cassette recorder, in the days before her suicide (suffering from cancer, she opts to tak...more

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Sep 19, 2010 Ali rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an enormously readable novel from the author of The Rotters Club, The House of Sleep and and What a carve up! I have read each of those three novel and was left fairly cold by the first, and loved the second two - this one I also thoroughly enjoyed. I read it in no time, as it's not very big and is pretty hard to put down.

The story is told in the voice of Rosamund as she prepares to die - wishing to tell her distant lost relation Imogen about her family and how she came into being. Havin...more

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Jul 09, 2010 Harkinna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read these two books, The Rain Before It Falls, and Pieces of the Left Hand, last month and really enjoyed both of them. The first story, purchased on impulse at Target (I now know that Target was targeting just me with this book: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/boo...), consisted of vignettes told to a tape recorder by Rosamond. Rosamond uses old pictures to tell the story, mostly chronologically, of her family and her life. There are shocking events that take place, and as you read along y...more I read these two books, The Rain Before It Falls, and Pieces of the Left Hand, last month and really enjoyed both of them. The first story, purchased on impulse at Target (I now know that Target was targeting just me with this book: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/boo...), consisted of vignettes told to a tape recorder by Rosamond. Rosamond uses old pictures to tell the story, mostly chronologically, of her family and her life. There are shocking events that take place, and as you read along you really feel like you can see the pictures taking form in your mind; for example you feel what it was like to be sent away from your family to the English countryside during the Second war. I was surprised that a male wrote this book for some reason.

The book left me with a few questions because at least one story line is not concluded. I often wonder if this is just poor editing or whether it was intentional. (Mr. Coe what happened with the daughter’s boyfriend? Did it matter? Just wondering.)

The second book, Pieces for the Left Hand, comprises of loosely related vignettes (again) told about life in a small northeastern town (I see Williamstown, MA in my head when I read the book). The stories are told from a first person plural point of view most of the time. This is typically very difficult to pull off, because most of the time two people don’t see and feel the same things. You know the author is really a man, and he is often telling things from the point of view himself and his wife. (One very famous book for using the first person plural point of view is The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.)

The books both tell about the ins and outs of families and life, both the mundane and the unintended, yet interesting events of everyday life that sometimes take your breath away. Some stories in Pieces of the Left Hand, forced me to read the stories out loud to Brent. And then once I read that some of the stories were true, I became even more interested in the stories. Crazy. None of the anecdotes is more than a few pages long, with most being under two pages.

One of the stories tells of a farmer who was tired of repairing his mail box after teenagers on Saturday nights used baseball bats to whack them off of their posts. This was a continual problem in Montana too. So the farmer fills the post with cement. Naturally, the star baseball player not only ends up breaking an arm, but his girlfriend in the back seat gets killed when the bat flies back and hits her in the back seat of the car. In another story, a man is a lucid dreamer, meaning he can control his dreams while he is dreaming. I won’t give it away, but needless to say, he ends up questioning his control.

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Jan 17, 2010 Holly Lee (Bellas Novella) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I needed a day to process this book after finishing it. This is hands down, one of the most well-written novels I have read in a long time. The character depth is astounding! I felt as though I knew these people, that their story could have been in my family.

Jonathan Coe's highly acclaimed "The Rain Before It Falls" is an epic tale of love, loss and above all family. When Gill finds out her Aunt has passed away she is left to deal with her estate. What she finds is a series of tapes that her Aun...more

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Apr 24, 2009 Ian Mapp rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. There is a lot to admire in this book. Mainly, the unique way that the life stories of the people unfold as one of the family review.

At the start of the book, we know an elderly aunt has died and she has left money to her niece (Gill) and to another relative - the blind imogen.

Gill is middle aged, with grown up children. She vaguely remembers imogen from a party in the seventies and she has the task of tracking her down. Her cause is aided by the fact that the lady (who may have comitted suicide...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Vasco rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Divinal.
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Jan 11, 2011 Melaszka rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A big disappointment, as I used to love Coe's books.

Every so often, I find a "literary" writer who is iconoclastic, fresh and brave, who isn't afraid to tackle political or social issues, who writes engrossing, page-turning plots, who uses language in a dazzling but contemporary and unpretentious way and who writes with a cynical, brilliant sense of humour. Then, after a few books, which are dismissed by literary critics as "juvenile" and "lacking in weight", s/he starts writing the same kind of...more

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Nov 30, 2011 Inês rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Não há que enganar: Jonathan Coe merece mais destaque. Depois de ler "A casa do sono" não fui capaz de resistir quando encontrei este livro na FNAC a metade do preço (mesmo sabendo que a pilha de livros na minha mesinha de cabeceira corre o risco de chegar ao tecto).
A história é muito bem contada embora tenha começado por achar entediante que a narradora fosse fazer a descrição de 20 fotografias, pareceu-me um número excessivo e deduzi que se tornasse muito repetitivo. Mas não. A história vai-se...more

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Aug 04, 2011 Jayne Charles rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A welcome return to form for Jonathan Coe - I thought the Rotters Club was a bit of a turkey, and avoided its sequel. A lot more conventional than a lot of his other work, this is a look back through the history of a family, and the effects of bad parenting down the generations. Rare, too, for such a touchy-feely book to be written by a male author.

Much of the narrative consists of descriptions of old photographs for the benefit of a blind character - I thought this was highly effective, firstl...more

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Dec 23, 2008 Mike Dawson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'm taking the title of the book, and the explanation of it from within the story, to refer to the sense of importance and connection that the protagonist feels for various distant members of her family over the course of her lifetime. The Rain Before It Falls is something that doesn't exist, but is something that can still give someone comfort or reassurance. The narrator follows a pattern of believing herself to play an important role in the lives of her cousin, her cousin's daughter, and then...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Elsa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sentiments, angleterre

Photographies d'un drame familial.

Jonathan Coe signe ici un roman intimiste, qui nous convie dans les aveux d'une vieille dame sur son lit de mort. Cette dernière Rosamund, nous conduit par la description de photos à travers l'histoire douloureuse mais bien réelle de sa cousine, et des liens indéfectibles qui les ont réunis, dans la joie, la peine et la douleur.

Ce livre construit subtilement les profils psychologiques des personnages de la famille, tissant au fil des descriptions photographiques...more

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Nov 25, 2012 Shonna Froebel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a story of women, mostly those from one family.
Gill is middle-aged with grown daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine, when her Aunt Rosamund dies. Rosamund has left tapes giving her life history for Gill to give her cousin's granddaughter Imogen. Gill has trouble finding Rosamund, so she and her daughters listen to the tapes. The story on the tapes makes up the majority of the book.
Rosamund's story begins with her evacuation to the country during WWII to stay with her mother's sisters family...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Derek Baldwin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I raced through this one: started it at about 4 p.m., went to bed with it finished the same day, and that is always a good sign. This is well written and the way that the story is structured is very neat. A lot of the text is supposedly a transcript of a tape recording made in the last days/hours of a woman intent on self-euthanasia. These were far too coherent and tidy to ring true as transcripts, they had clearly been very carefully written. The way in which carefully selected snapshots from t...more

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Jul 15, 2010 Rachel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After a bit of a dry spell I treated myself to this book after 'discovering' Coe only earlier this year. I adored what a carve up, and really enjoyed House of sleep. His nack for revealing plot with suspense, his character building and the way he can get away with frankly ludicrous plot lines all add up to a great read. This is a very different fish, however...

There are a few glimmers of Jonathan Coe here, but overall it feels like a book written by A.N.Other. If you covered the author name i'd...more

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Oct 17, 2012 S rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had never read any of Jonathan Coe's books before so I cannot compare this to his others but I can say that I found the book to be thoroughly enjoyable. Each chapter focuses on a photograph that an elderly lady is describing to her blind relative. The story unfolds through the 20 different photos. This concept of storytelling was totally new to me and thought would be really complicated and difficult to follow but it is actually a fairly easy read. The descriptions are strong and clear and you...more

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