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Title: This Is Happiness
Condition: New
EAN: 9781526609359
ISBN: 9781526609359
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 09/07/2020
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Weight: 282g
Author: Niall Williams
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1526609355
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Fiction
Release Year: 2020
Description: Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionFrom the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain‘Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive’ Sunday Times ‘A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone’ Irish Independent After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain. But one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish – the electricity is finally arriving. With it comes a lodger to Noel’s home, Christy McMahon. Though he can’t explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As Noel navigates his coming-of-age by Christy’s side, falling in and out of love, Christy’s buried past gradually comes to light, casting a glow on a small world and making it new.

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