Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionThe most enchanting novel you`ll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain`Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive` Sunday Times `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 - 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.

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Brand: Bloomsbury

EAN: 9781526609359