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 · The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw – review. Catherine Taylor. Published on Fri EST. A li Shaw's first novel, the Costa-shortlisted The Girl with Glass Feet, was set in Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Ali Shaw. Hello. I'm Ali Shaw. I’m the author of The Trees, The Man who Rained, and The Girl with Glass Feet, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. My books have been translated into fifteen different languages, and my shorter fiction has appeared in newspapers, magazines and on BBC Radio 4. `The man who rained' like Ali Shaw's first novel is very complex and works on many levels: It is both a tender love story and a story about redemption. Elsa who is mourning the death of her estranged father leaves behind her comfortable life in New York to settle in Thunderstown/5(30).

The Man Who Rained is a work of magic and imagination, a modern-day fable about the elements of love, from the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize. When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape to somewhere. For years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an aeroplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw. NOOK Book (eBook) Ali Shaw's first novel, the critically acclaimed The Girl with Glass Feet, won the Desmond Elliot Prize, was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award and the Crawford Award, and was an IndieNext pick. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw - review. Catherine Taylor. Published on Fri EST. A li Shaw's first novel, the Costa-shortlisted The Girl with Glass Feet, was set in a.

The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw – review. Catherine Taylor. Published on Fri EST. A li Shaw's first novel, the Costa-shortlisted The Girl with Glass Feet, was set in a. The Man Who Rained by Ali Shaw. NOOK Book (eBook) $ $ Save 5% Current price is $, Original price is $ You Save 5%. Ali Shaw's first novel. The Man who Rained is a work of lyrical, mercurial magic and imagination, a modern-day fable about the elements of love. “Shaw can write, there’s no doubt about that, and he has found the perfect setting for his folkloric prose in his fairy-tale creation, bringing it, in all its strangeness, to quiveringly tangible life, saturating his story with the weather .