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This is Happiness

De : Niall Williams
Lu par : Dermot Crowley
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Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.

For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.

As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world.

Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - and a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by roots running deep into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world.©2019 Niall Williams (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Fiction Fiction historique Passage à l'âge adulte Petites villes et ruralité
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Coming of age for both boy and country. The writing is superb and equal the audio performance.

Beautiful coming of age

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It's been a long time since I was last moved so much by a book. This novel is full of wonder and love in the face of poverty and loss, it reminds us of how rich life is no matter the adversities. I felt like I had had a long chat with a wise old friend or a distant great uncle after listening to this. What a fantastic novel and what an outstanding reader for it. Well done to both the writer and the voice actor!

Exquisitely read

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