By the author of Four Letters of Love, the international bestseller now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan. The second novel in Niall Williams’ beloved Faha series - shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards
Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. His critically
acclaimed and bestselling fiction has been shortlisted for the
Irish Times Literature Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize and the IMPAC Award. Williams’ debut novel Four Letters of
Love, an international bestseller, has been adapted by the author
for screen and will star Helena Bonham-Carter, Pierce Brosnan and
Gabriel Byrne. His most recent novel Time of the Child was an
instant Irish Times bestseller and was awarded the Kerry Group
Novel of the Year Award. 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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