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Authors: Niall Williams

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N
IALL
W
ILLIAMS
was born in Dublin in 1958. A playwright and the author of the critically acclaimed novels
Four Letters of Love
and As
It Is in Heaven,
he has also written four books with his wife, the artist Christine Breen, about their life in County Clare with their two
children.

CRITICS PRAISE THE WORKS OF NIALL WILLIAMS

Four Letters of Love

“Luminously written, magical…an exaltation of love itself.”


N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
BOOK
R
EVIEW

“A lush and lyrical world full of signs and wonders…a compelling meditation on love, art, and the vicissitudes
of love.”


S
AN
F
RANCISCO
C
HRONICLE

“Extraordinary.…Four
Letters of Love,
a stunning and luminous chronicle of love foretold, is Ireland and it is art.”


B
ALTIMORE
S
UN
-T
IMES

“A deeply spiritual work of art…Niall Williams has achieved a master stroke with this novel.”


B
OSTON
G
LOBE

As It Is
in Heaven

“A novel about the abiding redemptive grace of faith and love.”


N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW

“Swells with Williams’s signature style, the lilt of it mirrored even in simple sentences.”


M
ILWAUKEE
J
OURNAL
S
ENTINEL

“Richly woven with mysticism and melancholy…suspenseful… balanced by an aura of magic, eloquent sensitivity.”


B
OOKLIST

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