Four
Letters of Love by Niall Williams
Published by Picador, 1997
Four
Letters of Love is a stunning debut novel by an extraordinary writer.
It deals with what we all experience on life's journey - family,
joy, creativity, tragedy, love, death, happiness. This is a strong,
solid, complex and at times heart breaking story, but what Niall
Williams seems to do is sprinkle its characters with stardust and
give this novel a magical quality, so that the words simply skip
off the page and into your heart. He writes like a dream. His prose
so beautiful to be almost lyrical. I loved every letter, every word,
every space in between and each full stop that completed a sentence.
This novel is a flawless literary diamond. A Triumph. A Masterpiece.
Reviewed
by a member of Kilrush Library Book Club
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