Small Rain
19 September 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A New Statesman Book of the Year
'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' – John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island
'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam
'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing'...
Details
19 September 2024595 minutes
Garth Greenwell
9781509874712Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Small Rain reads like the work of a born novelistFinancial Times
Brilliantly evoked . . . it illuminates the complex realities of a body in pain – and what it is like to live with the uncertainty of it'The Times
A welcome call to action – to pause and think about how art, almost alone, has the capacity to revise and renewTLS
Greenwell's best bookThe Daily Mail
