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**Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award**
**The instant Irish Times Top Ten bestseller**
A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances – from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love
‘A rich and gorgeous book‘ The Times, The 10 best historical fiction books of 2024
‘Irresistible ? A powerful pleasure’ Karen Joy Fowler
‘Deeply compassionate‘ Guardian
‘Slow, rich, immaculate … One of the most affecting books I’ve ever read‘ The Times
‘I am such a fan of Niall Williams’ work’ Ann Patchett
‘A beautifully written novel about second chances and familial love‘ Observer
‘A story brimming with kindness and courage’ Mail on Sunday
‘A warm and life-affirming story about ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths’ Irish Times
‘Line by line, it may be the most beautifully written novel I’ve read this year‘ Washington Post
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Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in the little town of Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from his community. A visit from the doctor is always a sign of bad things to come.
His youngest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed her chance at real love – and passed up an offer of marriage from an unsuitable man.
But in the advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter’s lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever.
‘My own life feels richer having read it’ Mary Beth Keane
‘A triumph … There is so much to admire: the lyrical language, how landscape and destiny intertwine, the complex bonds of community’ Ron Rash
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There is something of Trollope’s Barsetshire here, in the sense of an entire place rendered in fine detail … Williams’s phrasing is immaculate and even the smallest characters are drawn with attention and detail. But Dr Troy is the heart of this slow, rich novel. The scene in which he dances with the baby in a quiet kitchen is one of the most affecting I’ve read
The Times
A compellingly emotional experience that catches the breath and doesn’t let up until it reaches its final, dramatic conclusion
Guardian
Time of the Child dazzles as both Christmas tale and erudite novel … A stylistic cousin to the vernacular achievements of Kevin Barry and Roddy Doyle, but also distinctive … Williams packs his paragraphs with lush imagery and piercing psychological insight. Let’s raise a glass of mulled wine to an Emerald Isle master at the peak of his powers
Washington Post
When I cried, it was because, with his careful and compassionate depictions of people, place and time, Williams reminds us of the humanity in all, of the vitality of a community that comes together, and of the power in revealing our vulnerabilities to others
New York Times Book Review
An exquisite portrayal of the characters, weather, geography and everyday life in rural west Ireland in 1962 … Akin to Dickens in his brilliantly detailed observations … Kind, wry, funny and poignant, this needs a great film director
Woman & Home, Books of the Year
My new favourite … A study in human community that made me laugh out loud and remember how to love even the people who cause others so much suffering, and especially those who come together to ease it
New York Times – Margaret Renkl
Williams, always skilful and compelling, has wrought something plausible out of one of the oldest stories we have … Williams’s delicacy in depicting the mysteries of interactions both human and divine is quietly satisfying … Williams excels in his characterisation
Financial Times
Williams’s newest is another master class in stunningly poetic depictions of the sorrow and beauty of arduous lives
People Magazine, Book of the Week
There’s a quiet grace to this slow-paced, poetic novel set in rural Ireland in the run-up to Christmas 1962 … A story brimming with kindness and courage
Mail on Sunday
Readers looking to get into the Christmas spirit early this year will find plenty of it in Niall Williams’s new novel, Time of the Child, a warm and life-affirming story about ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths
Irish Times
The genius – yes, genius – of Niall Williams is his evocation of the ordinary, which in his hands becomes an exaltation. He shares with Marilynne Robinson and Anne Tyler the gift of seeing the sublime in the everyday, a series of pr�cises of each and every human soul
The Weekly
A sublime tale of small-town Irish life … A slow-burning, finely crafted novel about second chances, humanity and familial love, Time of the Child rewards close reading … Williams’s descriptive language is extraordinary – his use of understatement and irony artfully deployed, his characterisation sublime. I find it astonishing that, despite his global success, he has yet to win a big award
Observer
A powerful pleasure to find myself back in Faha where the prose is luminous, the people irresistible, the stories mesmerizing, and it never stops raining
Karen Joy Fowler
A remarkably wonderful book … I was in tears
Church Times
Heartwarming … If you are looking for a novel that speaks to our better angels, pick up Time of the Child
Graydon Carter
Williams quietly lets us glimpse the story’s underlying harshness between the lines of his warm and finely turned festive tale … A lyrical, mid-20th-century tapestry set in a slowly transforming society as the advent of electricity revolutionises everyday life
Daily Mail
In this poignant novel, miracles abound … Time of the Child is an engrossing read, the dark and the rain and the shabby but hopeful holiday decorations blending with the peat smoke and the love, all coming fully alive on the page. And that is something of a miracle itself
Boston Globe
| Weight | 0.381 kg |
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| Dimensions | 232 × 152 × 24 cm |
