{"product_id":"this-is-happiness","title":"This Is Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Williams, Niall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 09-07-2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Review\n\nAdmirers 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 -- Alexander Larman ? Observer\n\nCharming 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 -- Isabel Berwick ? Financial Times\n\nWilliams 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\n\nThis 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 -- Caroline Jackson ? Country Life\n\nLovingly 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 -- Sue Leonard ? Irish Examiner\n\nSharp 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\n\nA surge of language, beautiful and enchanting, a novel that weaves a love of literature into its own moving tale -- Praise for 'History of the Rain' ? Guardian\n\nExtremely moving, poignantly capturing Ruth's doomed childhood relationship with her twin brother. By the final chapter I was weeping -- Praise for 'History of the Rain' ? Sunday Times\n\nDeeply 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 -- Praise for 'History of the Rain' ? Daily Telegraph\n\nA delicate and graceful love story that is also an exaltation of love itself . . . A luminously written, magical work of fiction -- Praise for 'Four Letters of Love' ? New York Times Book Review\n\nProduct Description\n\nShortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards\n\nLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\n\nFrom the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain\n\n'Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive' Sunday Times\n\n'A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone' Irish Independent\n\nAfter dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain.\n\nBut one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish - the electricity is finally arriving. With it comes a lodger to Noel's home, Christy McMahon. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.\n\nAs Noel navigates his coming-of-age by Christy's side, falling in and out of love, Christy's buried past gradually comes to light, casting a glow on a small world and making it new.\n\nBook Description\n\nThe most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain\n\nAbout the Author\n\nNiall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He studied English and French literature at University College Dublin before graduating with a Master's degree in Modern American Literature. He moved to New York in 1980 where he married Christine Breen, whom he had met while she was a Master's student also at UCD, and took his first \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526609359\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e english\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45448984461543,"sku":"LI-36G6-1SZ0","price":8.74,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/products\/517HNOflJzL.jpg?v=1669208075","url":"https:\/\/www.pigeonhousebooks.com\/products\/this-is-happiness","provider":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}