Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, a sparkling, perfectly formed new novel from the acclaimed author of Four Letters of Love.
Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eight novels including John and Four Letters of Love for which he has recently completed the screenplay for Element Pictures. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. niallwilliams.com
This is an important new book and, without spoiling the riveting
last chapter next Friday, the rewards increase tenfold the further
into the story one gets
*Book at Bedtime, Radio Times*
A surge of language, beautiful and enchanting, a novel that weaves
a love of literature into its own moving tale
*Guardian*
Extremely moving, poignantly capturing Ruth’s doomed childhood
relationship with her twin brother. By the final chapter I was
weeping
*Sunday Times*
The Anne Enright award for the Irish novel most guaranteed to make
you cry … Niall Williams wins this year’s award on the strength of
his title alone … Suffused with warmth and humour
*Independent on Sunday*
Deeply allusive, infectiously hopeful … Somewhere between
bildungsroman, epic and family saga, History of the Rain is an
unashamedly unfashionable, lyrical paean to the pleasure of reading
and to serendipity … A fresh and powerful reminder that: “We tell
stories to heal the pain of living
*Daily Telegraph*
Why Niall Williams’s History of the Rain did not win every literary
prize is baffling: it provided the most satisfying read of 2014. It
is a novel about books and being a bookish, serious reader, as well
as about family, Irish village life, devotion and weather,
invariably rain. Books rarely make me weep nowadays, but this one
did, for all the right reasons – its sublime and funny prose is
totally engaging. I could not bear it to end
*Kate Johnson, Readers' Books of the Year 2014,
Guardian*
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