Will I love Four Letters of Love?

Something in the culture Ireland produces so many brilliant story tellers, writers especially strong in family. Often those books have a grim edge. Life in Ireland can be hard, I get it. But in this, and his other books, Williams' gives the story a lightness, and treats human frailties and even perceptions of magic with empathy.

This beautiful book is possibly the most important book of my writing career. I found it in a second-hand bookstore in Dublin on a rainy afternoon and, like the plot, I felt that my finding it was a stroke of providence. I was so moved by the story that I immediately signed up for a writing workshop with the author. That workshop was a defining moment in my life – after it, I knew I wanted to be a writer. Although this story is not directly about art, it shows how a man’s calling, his compulsion to paint, plays a… show more.