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Title: Coming Rain

Author: Stephen Daisley

Narrator: Paul English

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-10-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

An astonishing examination of male friendship, set in Australia's wheatbelt.

Western Australia, the wheatbelt. Lew McLeod has been travelling and working with Painter Hayes since he was a boy. Shearing, charcoal burning - whatever comes. Painter made him his first pair of shoes. Its a hard and uncertain life, but its the only one he knows.

But Lews a grown man now. And with this latest job, shearing for John Drysdale and his daughter Clara, everything will change.

Stephen Daisley writes in lucid, rippling prose of how things work, and why; of the profound satisfaction in hard work done with care, of love and friendship and the damage that both contain.

Members Reviews:

Beautiful writing, memorable characters, gut-wrenching story

The story is set in Western Australiaâs outback in the 1950s. (We had a campervan trip through much of this country a few years ago, and his lyrical descriptions took me straight back there. It is mind-blowingly beautiful country with colours so vivid they seem impossible.) Daisleyâs writing style where he frequently uses sentence fragments, evokes the spareness and harshness and beauty of the place and characters. There are two parallel story lines; the first is that of a lone dingo bitch, and seeing the world through her senses is the best part of the book. A young male dog links up with her as the story moves on. They see the other human characters, but are not seen in return. Painter and Lewis, old and young, both shearers and drifters, end up on an isolated farm for the shearing. The farmer has lost his wife and is already partly mad with grief, and his only daughter, whose large pack of farm dogs and horses adore her, finds in young Lewis a much-needed friend and then lover. The relationships between these spare characters, each grappling with their own hard histories and devils, are poignant, harsh, beautiful, brutal, and in the end horrifying. It is one of the most beautifully written novels I have read in a long time, and it absolutely deserves its recent win of the NZ inaugural $50,000 Acorn Foundation Literary Prize.

A Potential Australian Classic from a Major talent.

Well crafted story telling notable for both for the depth of the character descriptions and the evocative descriptions of landscape. The prose is best described as earthy and muscular. This book is authentic in its detail and original in its plot. The main narrative is interspersed with an account of the wanderings of a pregnant dingo that is cleverly linked back to the main narrative. In my view this book is destined to become an Australian classic. I found it compulsive reading.

Excellent book

This is an excellent efficiently written book based in Australia on dry land sheep farming country. What makes this book so good are the layers of stories provided, interlinked and ranging from what its like to be a dingo to the lead characters who are shearers to the lonely life of the sheep farmer, who interestingly employs a Chinese immigrant housekeeper/cook who knows everything about everyone. In the book, life is tough and at times brutal and lacking in empathy for the creatures around us, but love and the drive to reproduce shines through, or does it?

A great story about the way we react to each other, good and bad and the environment in which a few of us (man and beasts) live.

Well written enjoyable reading!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.