Book description
**Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award**
**Longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award**
**The instant Irish Times Top Ten bestseller**
A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances - from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love
'I am utterly…
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2 authors picked Time of the Child as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It is a beautiful story about a widower trying to look after his daughter, not entirely aware of the irony that she is really taking care of him. The plot tension is generated and propelled by the appearance of an abandoned infant, found after a carnival. Well, where else would we expect an infant to show up? Dr. Troy and his daughter Ronnie are lovable characters, beset by their need to care for one another. The doctor wants to find a husband for Ronnie and manages to find the most unlikely candidate. The question then becomes whether Ronnie will brain…
This is the fifth of nine novels I've had the pleasure of reading by Irish author, Niall Williams - best known for History of the Rain. Williams is a poet who chooses to write prose. Though born in Dublin, these original novels are set in one small village in Ireland where Faha, this one village, becomes the whole world.
Time of the Child, set during the Christmas season, 1962, is another glorious character-driven story about how a baby left in a village – parents unknown - changes the lives of a village doctor and his eldest daughter.
“Only through the…
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