The most enchanting novel you’ll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain
Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of the Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain and eight other novels including Four Letters of Love, which is set to be a major motion picture. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. niallwilliams.com
Admirers of Niall Williams’s Booker-longlisted History of the Rain
will not be disappointed to learn that his latest novel is possibly
even better … What makes this so compelling and enjoyable is
Williams’s transparent love of his characters and delight in his
setting
*Observer*
Charming is one word for Williams’ prose. It is also life-affirming
and written with a turn of phrase that makes the reader want to
underline something on every page. I suggest we all buy his books,
pushing him into that realm of globally fashionable Irish writers,
but more importantly, sharing with a vast audience his humane and
poetic world view
*Financial Times*
Williams has the eye of a poet and the raconteur’s knack for
finding a tale in the most unpromising nook of everyday life, as a
now-adult Noel, summoning the Faha of his nostalgic imagination,
narrates an elegiac novel that’s careful always to offset the antic
rural eccentricity with darker notes of loss
*Daily Mail*
This is Happiness returns to the beguiling gloom of Faha … [A] wise
and redemptive novel … It dares, in addition, to be wildly comic …
With his silver ear for speech and extreme attentiveness to the
Heaneyesque “music of everyday”, Mr Williams treads softly on the
dreams of youth and memories of old age
*Country Life*
Lovingly written, the text is brimming with humanity, truth and
humour – and then there’s the pitch perfect language, with not a
word out of place … Magnificent
*Irish Examiner*
Sharp as a tack, bright as a button, and engorged with rich humour,
this is a love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd
Ireland that is all but gone
*Irish Independent*
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*
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
*Daily Telegraph*
A delicate and graceful love story that is also an exaltation of
love itself . . . A luminously written, magical work of fiction
*New York Times Book Review*
A book that I am rereading in an attempt to figure out the magic
and calm my soul
*New York Times Book Review*
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