by Walter Macken

This much-handled copy of Rain on the Wind is the third novel
of the west of Ireland writer,Walter Macken.
It was published in 1950 and brought him international recognition.
His ability to portray a sense of place is well utilised in this novel
where he constructs a passionate and dramatic story set
among the fishing community in Galway city.
In it there is life and death, love and loss, the hardship of poverty,
with the all-pervasive influence of the social and political mores of those years of post-independence Ireland.
It is a novel that many Irish people,at home and abroad, have read and enjoyed and often say that they must re-read.

A romantic and moving story of its time, it is one
that will always find a special place on the bookshelves of our home,
not just for the fact that it is a good old-fashioned page-turner
but also because its late author is my children's grandfather.