Teaser Tuesday – The Rain Before It Falls

Published on by Margaret

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Share a couple or more sentences from the book you’re currently reading.

For today’s teaser I’ve chose this from The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe. I recently borrowed this book from the library and have only read  the opening page just to see if it appealed. It does. It begins with Gill and Stephen, her husband outside raking leaves and shovelling them onto a bonfire when the telephone rang. Gill ran inside to answer it and then went back into the garden:

Stephen turned as he heard her approach. He saw bad news in her eyes, and his thoughts flew, at once, to their daughters: to the imagined dangers of central London, to bombs, to once-routine tube and bus journeys suddenly turned into wagers with life and death. (page 1)

Now, I just have to read more …

9 thoughts on “Teaser Tuesday – The Rain Before It Falls”

  1. Hi Margaret,

    Never come across this book before, although I do recognise the author’s name.

    I really do need to keep a look out for it on my travels though, sounds like a great read.

    I shall be interested in your views, when you have finished it

    Yvonne

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  5. I assume this is about WWII and that makes me wonder why suddenly I’m hearing so much about novels or memoirs set in London or the countryside in England during the Blitz. WWII is a subject I’ve read a lot of nonfiction about, but I think I’m going to track down some of the fiction; it’ll make the scene in England become more alive for me I think.

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  7. Its amazing what can flash through our thoughts when we feel great concern. Reading your teaser, I thought–And then…? Quite gripping!

    :)

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