Publication Date: 01/01/2015 ISBN: 9781447275107 Category:

Four Letters Of Love

Niall Williams, John Hurt

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 01/01/2015 ISBN: 9781447275107 Category:
Paperback / Softback

£9.99

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Description

Soon to be a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love. With an introduction by actor John Hurt.

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.

Magical and deeply romantic, Niall Williams’ Four Letters of Love has moved readers the world over and became an international bestseller. It is a life-affirming tribute to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.

Publisher Review

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

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