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The Man Who Rained
- Author: Ali Shaw
- Category: Fiction Commercial
- Publisher: Atlantic (UK)
- Pub date: 1 January 2012
- Length: 304 pages
About The Man Who Rained
haunting and thoroughly, charmingly different. ....readers have much to look forward to.
- SUNDAY TIMES
When Elsa’s father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape - from New York, her job, her boyfriend - to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an aeroplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received many a pilgrim, and young Elsa becomes its latest - drawn to this weather-ravaged backwater, this place rendered otherworldly by the superstitions of its denizens.
In Thunderstown, they say, the weather can come to life and when Elsa meets Finn Munro, an outcast living in the mountains above the town, she wonders whether she has witnessed just that. For Finn has an incredible secret: he has a thunderstorm inside of him. Not everyone in town wants happiness for Elsa and Finn. As events turn against them, can they weather the tempest - can they survive at all? The Man Who Rained is a work of lyrical, mercurial magic and imagination, a modern-day fable about the elements of love.
About the Author
‘Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story… A magical fable of fate and resignation.’ (Guardian)
Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has worked as a bookseller in London and Oxford.