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Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. His critically acclaimed and bestselling fiction has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC Award. Williams’ debut novel Four Letters of Love, an international bestseller, has been adapted by the author for screen and will star Helena Bonham-Carter, Pierce Brosnan and Gabriel Byrne. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine. niallwilliams.com
Praise for Niall Wiliams: A beautiful writer -- Hozier 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 What makes this so compelling and enjoyable is Williams’s 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 raconteur’s 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 *
