Father of the Rain
Your name is Daley Amory. Your parents are divorced. Your mother is building a new life; your father seeking solace in the drinks cabinet. At 18-years-old you finally escape his manipulative hold. You build a new life, fall in love, but one day a message reaches you that your father is alone and dying. Will you return to the messy scene of your childhood or embrace the future you have worked so hard to build?
Your name is Daley Amory. This is your choice.
Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. Lily's first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Father of the Rain is her third novel. Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award.
Author: Lily King (Author)
Format: Paperback, 368 pages, 129mm x 195mm, 340 g
Published: 2012, Atlantic Books, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Your name is Daley Amory. Your parents are divorced. Your mother is building a new life; your father seeking solace in the drinks cabinet. At 18-years-old you finally escape his manipulative hold. You build a new life, fall in love, but one day a message reaches you that your father is alone and dying. Will you return to the messy scene of your childhood or embrace the future you have worked so hard to build?
Your name is Daley Amory. This is your choice.
Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. Lily's first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Father of the Rain is her third novel. Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award.