Niall Williams: History of the Rain [2015] paperback Condition:Very Good Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

'People ashore don't realise what a grim war we are waging at sea with the Germans

Those cracks she's taken years to plaster over are beginning to surface and she's not sure how much longer she can keep all her secrets hidden

and with each other

Niall Williams: History of the Rain [2015] paperback Condition:Very Good Kurt CobainWe are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless