Second-Hand Rain
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Parthian Books
Published:29th Sep '14
Should be back in stock very soon

I am the laugh of a kookaburra. I am a currawong. I am a galah. I am a lyre because I am a lyrebird. I am a performer and I am superb. Dark, offbeat and haunting, from the bluest Venetian lagoon where a merwoman saves a drowning gondolier to a glass harmonica playing itself on a British tideline, this innovative and perceptive collection ripples with watery memories and poetic unease. Home is never the safe place as it snapshots families set apart by betrayal, illness or death: a phantom baby growing older, a granddaughter obsessively peeling tangerines, and a deaf sister conducting music in her sleep. Sadness loses its balance, then floats adrift as a litter picker finds secrets within her wasteland, nostalgia flowers in suburban gardens, and people vanish in the fog.
'Intricate, touching and astonishingly imaginative - ' Stevie Davies 'Georgia Carys Williams' disquieting stories explore the strangeness of existence; its elemental substance, its "being and nothingness".' Jo Mazelis 'Edgy and dark, psychologically needling and vigorously inventive, Second-hand Rain marks the arrival of a singular voice in fiction.' Jon Gower
ISBN: 9781909844841
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
250 pages
UK ed.