The Rain Before It Falls

Rosamond lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl Imogen, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago.
At the centre of the narrative is Imogen's grandmother, Beatrix, whose flight from her husband after the war in search of freedom and excitement left a damaging legacy. Damaging to her own daughter and granddaughter, but also to Rosamond. She became caught up in the ensuing turmoil and found herself the beneficiary of a sudden, intense happiness; a happiness which was just as suddenly snatched away...