Love 'Written in the Rain'

The novel revolves around five idiosyncratic characters in Brighton, at a time when everybody talks about the decline in English society. Paula, daughter of Polish immigrants, who dreams of spending her life with Thomas, a charismatic American scientist living near the Taconic Mountains; Marion, a complicated angel who enjoys looking after old people and doing a bit shop-lifting; Jim, a bohemian beat poet, traumatized by nuclear testing on Christmas Island and in love with Marion, Tung, a M...