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
Kind and funny ... Akin to Dickens in his observations, Williams descriptions of gesture hint at his characters interior landscapes * WOMAN & HOME *
With writing so stunning,
Time of the Child forces the reader to turn down page after page to always remember what genius is. Another glorious and touching novel from Niall Williams, one of the world's greatest storytellers -- Anne Griffin, author of the number one Irish bestseller When All is Said and Done
On the surface,
Time of the Child by Niall Williams is an elegiac portrait of life in an Irish village in the Christmas season of 1962. But it is so much more than that. Somehow, by laying bare the inner lives of these decent country people, my own life feels so much richer for having read it. I was deeply moved by this novel -- Mary Beth Keane, New York Times-bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes and The Half Moon
There is so much to admire in Niall Williams new novel - the lyrical language, how landscape and destiny intertwine, the complex bonds of community - but what impresses most is how vividly he enters the innermost thoughts of his characters, thus revealing their seemingly quiet existences brim with the profoundest questionings of how we should live our lives.
Time of the Child is a triumph -- Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Caretaker
Oh, the utter goosebumpy pleasure of reading this book! The experience will fill you up, even if you didn't know there was an emptiness there to begin with. Niall Williams reminds us again and again that the small and the ordinary are married to amazement, that dailiness and miracles walk hand in hand, and that other people are a mystery: Approach with curiosity! Approach with grace -- CATHERINE NEWMAN
Niall Williams is one of Irelands greatest storytellers, and Time of the Child is his finest, and most compelling work to date
-- SIMON VAN BOOY
Praise for Niall Wiliams: A beautiful writer -- Hozier
What makes this so compelling and enjoyable is Williamss transparent love of his characters and delight in his setting * Observer *
Williams prose .... is written with a turn of phrase that makes the reader want to underline something on every page. I suggest we all buy his books, pushing him into that realm of globally fashionable Irish writers, but more importantly, sharing with a vast audience his humane and poetic world view * Financial Times *
Williams has painted a lush, wandering portrait of Faha, a village back in time in County Clare, Ireland We are invited to lower ourselves into a slower kind of time ... [A] bighearted novel * New York Times *
Williams has the eye of a poet and the raconteurs knack for finding a tale in the most unpromising nook of everyday life * Daily Mail *
With his silver ear for speech and extreme attentiveness to the Heaneyesque music of everyday, Mr Williams treads softly on the dreams of youth and memories of old age * Country Life *
A surge of language, beautiful and enchanting, a novel that weaves a love of literature into its own moving tale * Guardian *
A luminously written, magical work of fiction * New York Times Book Review *
