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This is Happiness

By: Niall Williams
Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
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Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.

For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.

As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.

Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - and a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by roots running deep into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world.©2019 Niall Williams (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Coming of Age Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Feel-Good Funny Heartfelt Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking Witty Inspiring
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A beautifully written memoir of rural Ireland. I was in awe of the weaving of words that made me laugh and cry aloud and conveyed the essence of traditional rural Irish character. ☘️💛

Loved every little thing about this book!

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I absolutely loved this story. The characters are so real and the story takes you away to another time and place so vividly described.

Beautifully written and narrated

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I didn't want it to end and I'm hoping there is a sequel. Wonderful story and told in a most unique way.

Beautiful 😍 I didn't want it to end

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superb reading of an excellent book. That says it all but the review has to be 15 words

Exceptional

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I really enjoyed this book. a wonderful story of the past meeting the future and so beautifully narrated.
The humour, the sadness, the realness of the characters... I was sorry it had to finish.

a lovely story

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