Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781526609359
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards




Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction



From the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain



_x2018_Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive Sunday Times




_x2018_A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone Irish Independent




After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain.




But one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish _x2013_ the electricity is finally arriving. With it comes a lodger to Noel s home, Christy McMahon. Though he can t explain it, Noel knows right then- something has changed.




As Noel navigates his coming-of-age by Christy s side, falling in and out of love, Christy s buried past gradually comes to light, casting a glow on a small world and making it new.