Лучшие книги Нейла Уильямса

1957 год. В деревеньке Фаха в графстве Клэр, где ничто не менялось тысячу лет, грядут перемены. Во-первых, прекратился дождь. Никто не помнит, когда он начался: вечный дождь на западном побережье Ирландии — норма жизни. Но вот местный священник Отец Коффи возвещает приход электричества, и тучи, кажется, рассеиваются. Семнадцатилетний Ноэл Кроу проводит лето в Фахе у дедушки с бабушкой, и тут вместе с вестниками грядущего — электриками — появляется загадочный Кристи и приносит с собой громадную вселенную прошлого и тайн, которым предстоит раскрыться, а заодно много-много живой ирландской музыки. Найлл Уильямз владеет техникой…

"История дождя", под звуки которого происходят значимые события в жизни девочки по имени Рут, — это колоритное смешение традиций, мифов и легенд. Рут не выходит из дома из-за неизвестной болезни. Она окружена книгами, которые принадлежали ее отцу Вергилию. Девочка много читает и однажды решает создать собственную версию жизни Вергилия. Она начинает издалека, с юности Абрахама, отца ее отца, который, чудом уцелев во время войны, покидает родной дом и отправляется в поисках удачи в живописную Ирландию. История Рут — это сказ о бесконечном дожде, который однажды обязательно закончится. Это песнь во славу любви, которая исцеляет,…

Никласу Килану было двенадцать лет, когда его отец объявил, что получил божественный знак и должен стать художником. Но его картины мрачны, они не пользуются спросом, и семья оказывается в бедственном положении. С каждым днем отец Никласа все больше ощущает вину перед родными...

Исабель Гор – дочь поэта. У нее было замечательное детство, но оно закончилось в один миг, когда ее брат, талантливый музыкант, утратил враз здоровье и свой дар. Чувство вины не оставляет Исабель годами, и даже толкает в объятия мужчины, которого она не любит.

Когда Никлас отправится на один из ирландских островов, чтобы отыскать последнюю сохранившуюся картину своего отца, судьба сведет его с Исабель. Они будут очарованы друг другом, и он напишет ей уйму писем, но, к сожалению, большинству из них суждено умереть в огне…

Love is not easy, especially if you find the woman of your dreams and then lose her – as Philip Griffin and his son Stephen each discover in turn.

Stephen is just a boy when his mother and sister are killed in a car crash, and his father never recovers from the accident: he wasn’t involved but is consumed by grief, his only desire to be reunited with his wife. Before that happens, though, Philip wants to ensure the happiness of his son, Stephen – now a grown man.

‘As it is in Heaven, Niall Williams’ tale of love and tragedy, will leave you in tears’ Tatler

‘A bitter-sweet novel about passionate love giving way to commitment, grief to a sort of healing’ Irish Times

‘A tender and sober novel with a faith in romance that is absolute’ Daily Express

‘Delicious coincidence and tragedy, as extraordinary lives unravel and intertwine’ Guardian

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha. Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at love – and passed up another 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…

Stephen is just a boy when his mother and sister are killed in a car crash, and his father never recovers from the accident: he wasn`t involved but is consumed by grief, his only desire to be reunited with his wife. Before that happens, though, Philip wants to ensure the happiness of his son, Stephen - now a grown man.

The epic new novel by the bestselling author of Four Letters of Love and As it is in Heaven* This story begins in Ireland, in the bleak years of the mid-nineteenth century. The men of the Foley family have lost their home and suffered another loss which proves even more vital - beautiful Emer Foley, wife of Francis, mother to the four boys. With nothing to hold them they move on, setting out across Ireland to its Western shore, searching for the untenanted land that is to be their new Eden. But Francis Foley is a bitter man, and his harsh, proud soul can only bring destruction. Inevitably the five Foleys are scattered, each to his own road. Niall Williams leads the reader along on their great journeys, through the bittersweet heart of rural Ireland and far beyond its shores. He wrings beauty out of desolation and joy alike, guiding his characters through fire and water, earth and sky, magic and reality, loss and consolation, until finally they come to terms with their own freedom and dreams.

A beautiful and moving novel about a young boy’s journey from childhood to adulthood from the bestselling author of Four Letters of LoveNiall Williams draws us into life in a small village in Ireland where a boy is growing up and making his first tentative steps to becoming a man. Questioning everything in an attempt to make sense of the world he is discovering through books, he is on the cusp of an understanding of what it is to be a man. But, when the Master, his caring old guardian, gives him a letter from his long-dead mother, his world comes crashing down.Learning for the first time that his father is not dead, as he had been led to believe, the boy must relearn everything he thought he knew. He sets out to find his father, piecing together the information he can glean from his mother's letter: he is a journalist for the BBC, he has lived in London, and he is a Muslim.The boy sets out to find his father. Arriving in London, disorientated and alone, he finds himself at the centre of a terrorist attack as the BBC is bombed and hundreds are killed and injured. Taken under the caring wing of Sister Bridget, a nun also caught up in the chaos, he refuses to allow this catastrophe to move him from his goal; he must find his father.This is the heart-warming tale of a young boy trying to find his way in a changing world, a world where no-one is safe and where terrorists seek to destroy all that civilisation holds dear.