Only Say the Word(1st Edition) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43396-9, ISBN: 0-330-43396-2
"Both a novel and a letter from a husband to his wife, Only Say the Word is a haunting, intimate testament to the enduring nature of love.Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God, although not necessarily in that order. Later, he loves Kate, enough to make her his wife; later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America ..."
"This story takes up where O Come Ye Back to Ireland left off. After learning they can't have children, Niall and Christine adopt their only child, Diedre, and continue their story in the pastoral farming community in the wild and beautiful Irish countryside."
As It Is In Heaven(Updated) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Pan Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37531-3, ISBN: 0-330-37531-8
"It seems right that the lovers in Niall Williams's As It Is in Heaven hail from Italy and Ireland, those sentimental favorites among nations. Williams won kudos and laurels, fans and fame for his first novel, Four Letters of Love, and his second finds him once again illuminating a simple love affair with his own special brand of fine and even brave mawkishness. Dubliner Stephen Griffin, though possessed of a "thin and long" body, is st ..."
"Our First Year in County Clare Niall Williams, Christine Breen. The drive took us
down through Kerry, past Kil- larney and the Lakes, and onto the fabulous scenic
wonderland of the ... Recently Schull had begun to establish a name for itself as a
West Cork center for pottery, painting and crafts, and its narrow rising main street
was a place of bright colors and lively pubs. Down at the harbor a secretive
footpath led out along the ..."
The Fall of Light by NiallWilliams Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67987-9, ISBN: 0-446-67987-9
"Beginning in Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen. Soon forced apart by the violence of the Irish wilderness, the potato famine, and the promise of America, the brothers find themselves scattered across the world. Their separate adventures unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and bea ..."
As It Is in Heaven(Reprint) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2000 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67601-4, ISBN: 0-446-67601-2
"A man content to let life pass him by, schoolteacher Stephen Griffin is about to experience a miracle. For a string quartet from Venice has arrived in County Clare and, with it, worldly and beautiful violinist Gabriella Castoldi, who inspires love in the awkward Stephen. Although the town's blind musician senses its coming, the greengrocer welcomes its sheer joy, and Stephen's ailing father fears its power, none could have foreseen how ..."
"Time has already stopped for Stephen Griffin when he moves into the little house by the sea. Twenty-eight years old and haunted by death, the tall, awkward, shy schoolteacher is Content to care for his father in Dublin and let life pass him by.Then a miracle appears: a string ensemble from Venice and, with it, a violinist named Gabriella Castoldi. Even though the worldly, beautiful musician seems incapable of giving her heart, love seiz ..."
"In their fourth book, Williams and Breen, the authors of O Come Ye Back to Ireland, When Summer's in the Meadow, and The Pipes Are Calling chronicle their life and adventure in this beautiful country, where fewer and fewer Irish men and women are lucky enough to be able to live."
"Ten years ago, Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a life in Kiltumper cottage-once Christine's grandfather's stone farmhouse-outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. They wanted to lead a more authentic life, to form part of a community, to write and paint and raise children in the scenic Irish countryside where they felt, somehow, they belonged.They have renovated the abandoned cottage, created a g ..."
"Beginning in Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen. Soon forced apart by the violence of the Irish wilderness, the potato famine, and the promise of America, the brothers find themselves scattered across the world. Their separate adventures unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and bea ..."
The Fall of Light(Reprint) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2002 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48700-9, ISBN: 0-330-48700-0
"Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home - and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of ch ..."
The Fall of Light by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2001 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48701-6, ISBN: 0-330-48701-9
"This story begins in Ireland, in the bleak years of the mid-nineteenth century."
"Niall Williams. 6. He was called Moses Mooney. He had a great fluff of white
beard and walked down the streets of Miltown Malbay with his head held
backward to let it flow. He had two coats and wore them both in winter, one on top
of the other, so the fullness of his figure as he came towards you ... years old, that
Moses Mooney realized what he was to do with his life and returned from the
shores of Brazil to Miltown Malbay with t ..."
Four Letters of Love(Updated) (Spanish Edition) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Pan Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-330-35269-7, ISBN: 0-330-35269-5
"'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. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other - but fate doesn't always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start, Nicholas and Isabel have never met and nor are they likely to, without ..."
Only Say the Word by NiallWilliams Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2005 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43458-4, ISBN: 0-330-43458-6
Only Say the Word by NiallWilliams Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43395-2, ISBN: 0-330-43395-4
"Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate -- enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her -- and later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from his early days in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and then back to Clare again. From happy-ever-after to death-do-us-part; from beginnings to endings to fresh starts; from child, to husb ..."