Four Letters of Love

A Novel

By: Niall Williams

Narrated by: Niall Williams

Bloomsbury presents Four Letters of Love written and read by Niall Williams.

Niall Williams’s internationally bestselling “delicate and graceful love story . . . a magical work of fiction” (NYTBR), now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne.

Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas’s own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it.

Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She’s a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness.

And then, the day after Isabel’s wedding to man she doesn’t love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father’s last surviving painting. Suddenly the winds of fortune begin to shift, sweeping both these souls up with them. Nicholas and Isabel, it seems, were always meant to meet. But it will take a series of chance events—and perhaps, a proper miracle—to convince both to follow their hearts to where they’re meant to be.©2024 Niall Williams (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Amazing! A thing of painful beauty

Beautifully written and read. Magical and totally realistic portrait of life and longing. It was like reading a poem.

Tragedy isn’t often that - and more than often, beautiful.

Not as charming as his other works but I doubt it was intended to be - more like reality situated in poetry.

Niall Williams will surprise you with sadness and love. Magical!!

Niall Williams will surprise you with sadness and love. Magical!! It is amazing how he speaks to the sounds of male and female.

Another great read by Niall Williams.

I love the development of the marriages and the picture of Irish life.
I will read everything he writes and those of Claire as well.

Probably best if Read not Listened to

I love Niall and This Is Happiness and Time of the Child are my very favorites!!
I read them and cherished every single word.
I listened to this book on Audible and my
mind tended to wander. It wasn’t till about half way through that I realized I was very confused. I was thinking that Nicholas and Sean were the same person and I was very confused cause it didn’t match up so I had to do some investigative research and find out there’s two different families here. Obviously this is your mind wandering and you doing other things while you listen to an audiobook. Once I got that straight, it was much better. Although I didn’t love this book as much as his two others, this is more melancholy and more of a romance without as much humor. That being said it is still a very good book. And I would love to see the movie if there is a movie.