Four Letters Of Love
Published on 6. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-0350-3880-0 (ISBN)
Description
The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.
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'A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love' - The Times
'A delicate and graceful love story . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape' - The New York Times
'When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . .' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny.
Strangers Nicholas and Isabel are destined for each other - they just don't know it yet. As they each struggle to recover from the bruises of their childhood, a chance encounter on a remote island in the west of Ireland hurls them together.
Tender, romantic and profound, the international bestseller Four Letters of Love established Niall Williams as one of Ireland's most treasured writers, and has become a classic love story that testifies the forces of fate and faith.
Now part of the Picador Collection.
_________
'A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love' - The Times
'A delicate and graceful love story . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape' - The New York Times
'When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . .' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny.
Strangers Nicholas and Isabel are destined for each other - they just don't know it yet. As they each struggle to recover from the bruises of their childhood, a chance encounter on a remote island in the west of Ireland hurls them together.
Tender, romantic and profound, the international bestseller Four Letters of Love established Niall Williams as one of Ireland's most treasured writers, and has become a classic love story that testifies the forces of fate and faith.
Now part of the Picador Collection.
Reviews / Votes
A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love * The Times * A joy, an acutely evocative and sexual story . . . my God I couldn't put it down -- Marianne Faithfull A lyrical and passionate novel shot through with the belief in divine order versus chaos; the belief in destiny and the demonic fight against it, and, in spite of all the evidence that life is cruel and arbitrary, the presence of the supernatural and the manifestation of miracles * Observer * This book can rightly claim its place among the classics of Irish literature. A wonderfully affecting love story * Belfast Telegraph * A delicate and graceful love story that is also an exaltation of love itself . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape . . . Four Letters of Love also gives us Niall Williams's own Ireland, a place devoted to the belief in miracles and the obsessive power of love * The New York Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
252 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0350-3880-0 (9781035038800)
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Niall Williams
Four Letters Of Love
The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan
E-Book
12/2014
Picador
€14.49
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Person
Niall Williams was born in 1958 and lives in Kiltumper, Ireland, with his wife Christine and their two children. He is the author of several novels, including Four Letters of Love, which was sold in over twenty countries and an international bestseller.