Four Letters of Love

Niall Williams

A novel about destiny, acceptance and the tragedies and miracles of everyday life. Most of all it is an unforgettable tale about the illuminating power of love, and how all our stories meet in the end.

From County Clare in Ireland, Niall Williams has written four previous works with his wife Christine Breen, that demonstrates intimate knowledge and love of their country. And in this work, we Niall Williams tells the story of two Irish families whose lives have been touched and forever altered by significant moments of grief and how their lives inevitably converge.

Nicholas Coughlan has grown up amidst miracles. At age twelve, God tells his father to leave his civil servant job and turn to painting. Given the source, the vocational change does not bode well for the family as disaster repeatedly strikes at the world around Nicholas. However, these changes do eventually lead him to Isabel Gore.

Isabel Gore would be the sparkle of hope in her parents eyes whose intelligence would see her destined for university. Her proud father, the Master at the one room school on the Irish island where they live, with her brother a talented muse and a musical prodigy whom must also be destined for great things. And so it all seems until tragedy strikes their household which could forever alter desitinies.

When the Coughlan and Gore families finally come together to prove that in this instance at least that the plots of God and of love can come together and were the same thing.

Four Letters of Love, is an international bestseller and sold in over twenty countries.

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