'You know that moment when the ingenue in the horror movie heads downstairs to check the radiator, and you're screaming, dumbfounded, at the screen? That's the sort of protective rage you feel for Daley Amory, the narrator of Lily King's novel Father of the Rain.' Elle 'King is a beautiful writer' New York Times 'Spellbinding... You won't be able to stop reading this book.' Vanity Fair 'It's impossible not to be drawn in' Daily Mail 'Masterful... Heart-breaking... I wanted to shut my eyes, and couldn't because I couldn't stop reading. When I finished, I cried for us all.' Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress

Lily King grew up in Manchester, Massachusetts. Lily's first novel, The Pleasing Hour (1999) won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was a New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award. Father of the Rain is her third novel. Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award.