From Niall Williams, the internationally bestselling author of Four Letters of Love, comes This Is Happiness, a novel shortlisted for the Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards and longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize. This tender and perceptive story explores change in the small, rain-soaked Irish parish of Faha.

Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe returns to Faha after leaving the seminary. Life in the unchanging parish is disrupted when the rain finally stops and news arrives that electricity is coming. With this modernization comes Christy McMahon, a lodger whose buried past gradually illuminates Noel's coming-of-age and transforms the small world around them.

• Contemporary Fiction by Niall Williams, author of Four Letters of Love.
• Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize.
• Shortlisted for the Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards.
• Features a compelling narrative of change and discovery in a small Irish community.

• Author: Niall Williams
• Brand/Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Binding: Paperback (Perfect binding)
• Language: English
• Print Length: 400 pages
• Publication Date: 9 July 2020
• ISBN-10: 1526609355
• ISBN-13: 978-1526609359
• Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 28mm
• Weight: 1.05 kg

Discover a novel praised for its delicate wit and rare insight, perfect for readers seeking richly drawn characters and evocative settings.