Where the Rain Gets In eBook Adrian White
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"Exceptionally well-written." (Martina Devlin, Irish Daily Star)
The price we pay for the life we make.
Katie, a successful investment banker and media commentator, self-harms each morning before work. Nice Guy Mike - the only man she ever allowed get close to her - steps out of her past and back into her life, unearthing secrets and memories that long lay buried in the Arizona desert.
"There was a numbness in these old scars that meant her skin had lost its sense of touch (wasn’t that the point?), but it hurt her inside, in her tummy it seemed, and only on really bad days would she deliberately open old sores. But most days, and this was one of those days, just a little nick of a reminder would do."
What others are saying about Where the Rain Gets In
He has fashioned both an engaging casino-sting/caper story and a wiser, psychologically detailed tale of hard-won success, unrequited love and hidden personal pain.
Hugh Tynan, Irish Examiner
White has described his characters brilliantly and, in a feat that is not easy for any male author, has drawn a picture of an incredibly believable female character. Although White’s characters appear to be damaged and hurt beyond repair, this book leaves the reader with a sense that there is hope. Very well written and with such a fantastic title, how could you resist?
Bibliofemme
It’s a challenging book about a woman who cuts herself. It helps you get inside the character’s head and understand self-loathing. It’s exceptionally well-written.
Martina Devlin, Irish Daily Star
About the Author
Adrian White is an English writer who has lived with his family in Ireland for over twenty-five years. His first novel, An Accident Waiting to Happen was first published by Penguin Books, as was his second novel Where the Rain Gets In. Both are now available again in print and as ebooks. His third novel, Dancing to the End of Love, is published by Black & White Publishing of Edinburgh.
Where the Rain Gets In eBook Adrian White
I'm not sure if the book description is accurate or if i might have miss something important on the plot because, to me, it didn't make much sense. I think was an ok story, not much intriguing, going from past to present to explain a situation that the reader gets to know until the last pages. Those last pages saved the book for me, i think it was the only momento on the book tha i was realy interested on knowing what might happen. I dont think is a bad book, but it didn't get much of my attention.Product details
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Where the Rain Gets In eBook Adrian White Reviews
Realizing I don't have an infinite amount of time ahead of me, I no longer feel compelled to finish every book I start. I did finish Where the Rain Gets In, but came away puzzled about what the writer wanted me to get out of it.
On one level it's an account of how the repercussions of a single act ripple through different lives. That's what attracted me in the first place. The act is an audacious (if slightly implausible) scheme to get money out of a Las Vegas casino by counting the cards at blackjack. No, I can't tell you how it's done. But it is possible. The enterprising cardsharp is a Belfast boy, Mike Maguire, who is studying law at Manchester University It's the start of the `80s, and Margaret Thatcher has just come to power. Mike has a boyish charm he attracts people and manipulates them. Among his flock is Katie McGuire, native Mancunian and survivor of some ghastly but unspecified abuse which has left her with the unshakable habit of slashing her inner thighs with a razor blade. An interesting pair of characters to throw together, and the book's main strength is the delicacy and skill with which they are depicted.
Where the Rain Gets In starts with Mike calling Katie twenty years after the Vegas stunt, which went even better than planned when he recycled his blackjack winnings on the roulette wheel. They're rich, -ish. But afterward, escaping across the desert with Bruno, the third member of the gang, Katie kills him when he makes a sexual advance. It's a vivid scene, this killing in the night with the saguaro cacti and the distant lights of Phoenix glimmering across the desert.
Unfortunately, after this long flashback, the pot goes off the boil. There's not much more action to speak of, just a lot of narration and dialog. "Show, don't tell" is the first rule of fiction writing, and when it is flouted you see immediately why it's so important.
I thought at first I was reading a tragedy, gifted young man fails to achieve potential because of ... what? That, it seems to me, is the book's main structural weakness. There's a protagonist--two if you include Katie, three if you count Mike's frustrated wife Margaret. But there is no antagonist. The nearest thing to a villain is the shadowy figure of Margaret Thatcher, looming in the wings. So rather than some climactic struggle in which good triumphs over evil, or vice versa, things just fizzle out. Is Katie haunted by guilt because she killed Bruno? No. Has new information come to light which links her to the murder? No. Is she finally going to have sex with Mike? No. Is Margaret, after a bungled attempt to seduce Mike's business partner, going to kick him out? No. Are the facts that Katie's name is McGuire and Mike's wife's name is Margaret relevant? Presumably, yes. But I don't know why.
I finished Where the Rain Gets In with more questions than answers, and the feeling that I had missed the point. But it did interest me enough to read through to the end, and think the time well spent.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book until it was time to resolve loose ends, then the author seems to take an unusual route. The story of a merry band of misfits - a self cutter, an alcoholic, a schemer - that bond enough to pull off a grand scheme, then split up for twenty years, left me satisfied; then the arrival in the plot of the mentally disturbed daughter of one of the misfits who is the catalyst that brings 2 of them back together kinda of left me cold. Would have preferred the resolution of the missing third character, rather than this excuse to give the others an excuse to philosophize on the effects of mental distress. Adrian White handles tough subjects well is a given, and mostly his plots are well thought out, but sometimes his twists don't work as well as say they did in his Accidents Waiting to Happen.
Loved this book. Very well written and left me hanging.
Good read. Very detailed. A few errors in names and sayings, but a good book. Loved the murder! Good read.
This book was a deep and insightful, yet entertaining read about young women with very real issues. Great book for a rainy day.
This is a story about self abuse. The main character cuts herself and because of this she isolates herself from relationships. I never felt any depth from her at all. However the ending was the part of the book that I disliked the most. It leaves you with several cliffhangers. Not too bad but I wouldn't read again.
I'm not sure if the book description is accurate or if i might have miss something important on the plot because, to me, it didn't make much sense. I think was an ok story, not much intriguing, going from past to present to explain a situation that the reader gets to know until the last pages. Those last pages saved the book for me, i think it was the only momento on the book tha i was realy interested on knowing what might happen. I dont think is a bad book, but it didn't get much of my attention.
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