Four Letters Of Love
19 June 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Soon to be a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.
‘When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn’t say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . .’ So begins Niall Williams’ magical tale about love and destiny.
Strangers Nicholas and Isabel are...
Details
19 June 2025368 pages
9781035038800Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human loveThe Times
A joy, an acutely evocative and sexual story . . . my God I couldn't put it downMarianne Faithfull
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 miraclesObserver
This book can rightly claim its place among the classics of Irish literature. A wonderfully affecting love storyBelfast Telegraph
