As perfect a novel as you’ll ever find. Wry and gentle, atmospheric and absorbing, Time of the Child is an enriching story about love and second chances by master storyteller Niall Williams.

There are very few writers who can set the pace as gently and persuasively as Williams, who you’ll remember from past favourites History of the Rain and This is Happiness. With its superbly lyrical phrasing and evocative, mist-laden landscape, I can guarantee you will lose yourself and all sense of time in this gorgeous book. 

Doctor Jack Troy knows the ailments of all in the small Irish village where he, and his father before him, have tended generations of the sick, the new-born and the dying. Tradition, stoicism and secrets define them in equal measure. A widower now, with his own secrets and regrets, Doctor Troy is unprepared for the late happiness he and his daughter will find with an unexpected guest.

BUY BOOK