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History of the Rain: By the author of Four Letters of Love, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan

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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 th...