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Four Letters Of Love

Paperback

Synopsis

The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.

'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.

Details

06 February 2025
368 pages
9781035038800
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

A joy, an acutely evocative and sexual story . . . my God I couldn't put it downMarianne Faithfull
A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human loveThe Times, The Times
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 miraclesObserver, Observer
This book can rightly claim its place among the classics of Irish literature. A wonderfully affecting love storyBelfast Telegraph, Belfast Telegraph