Four Letters Of Love

Soon to be a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.‘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 eachstruggle to recover from the bruises of their childhood, a chance encounter on a remote island in thewest of Ireland hurls them together.Tender, romantic and profound, the international bestseller Four Letters of Love established NiallWilliams as one of Ireland’s most treasured writers, and has become a classic love story that testifiesthe forces of fate and faith.

A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love, A joy, an acutely evocative and sexual story . . . my God I couldn't put it down, 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, This book can rightly claim its place among the classics of Irish literature. A wonderfully affecting love story, A delicate and graceful love story that is also an exaltation of love itself . . . a luminously written, magical work of fiction . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape . . . Yet in its serious fancifulness, its feverish intensities, 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

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.