Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain is a profound and luminous exploration of the beauty of life, set against the backdrop of a medical crisis. It explores the forces that give life value and the fragility of the American healthcare system. The novel is a love story of the most unexpected kind, and is praised for its exquisite writing and vivid imagery.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 19 September 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true – Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island

Fundamentally about the beauty of life – Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam

Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

A fierce beautiful novel - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater

Beautiful, evocative – The Times

A medical crisis brings one man close to death – and to love, art, and beauty – in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.

A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.

This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value – art, memory, poetry, music, care – are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom.

Small Rain

surge beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.

A classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

Weight: 422g
Dimension: 224 x 145 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509874699