This Is Happiness av Niall Williams

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<b>Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards</b><b>Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction</b><b>From the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted <i>History of the Rain</i></b><b>¿Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive¿ <i>Sunday Times </i>¿A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone¿ <i>Irish Independent</i></b> After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain. But one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish ¿ the electricity is finally arriving. With it comes a lodger to Noel¿s home, Christy McMahon. Though he can¿t explain it, Noel knows right then: <i>something has changed</i>. As Noel navigates his coming-of-age by Christy¿s side, falling in and out of love, Christy¿s buried past gradually comes to light, casting a glow on a small world and making it new.