Four Letters Of Love

The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan. 'A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love' – The Times'A delicate and graceful love story . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape' – The New York TimesWhen I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn’t say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . . So begins Niall Williams’ magical tale about love and destiny. Strangers Nicholas and Isabel are destined for each other – they just don’t know it yet. As they each struggle to recover from the bruises of their childhood, a chance encounter on a remote island in the west of Ireland hurls them together. Tender, romantic and profound, the international bestseller Four Letters of Love established Niall Williams as one of Ireland’s most treasured writers, and has become a classic love story that testifies the forces of fate and faith. Now part of the Picador Collection.