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From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world.
35 years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine's ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to writing, gardening, and living a life that followed the rhythms of the earth.
In 2019, with Christine in the final stages of recovery from cancer and the land itself threatened by the arrival of turbines just one farm over, Niall and Christine decided to document a year of living in their garden and in their small corner of a rapidly changing world. Proceeding month-by-month through the year, and with beautiful seasonal illustrations, this is the story of a garden in all its many splendors and a couple who have made their life observing its wonders.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Niall Williams was born in Dublin. He is the author of nine novels, including History of the Rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and Four Letters of Love, which will soon be a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. His most recent novel, This Is Happiness was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year and longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, Ireland.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christine Breen's first novel was published when she was 60 and in the same year she was diagnosed with cancer. Her Name is Rose — Breen's first novel, was published in the US by St. Martin’s Press and translated into Polish and Turkish. Her second novel, ACCIDENTS, is finished but not published, yet. New York was ‘home’ until she moved to the 200 year old cottage in the west of Ireland with husband, Niall Williams. When she is not writing or drawing, Breen is in the garden, or thinking about all three. But mostly she is wondering how her two grown children, now New Yorkers, and her lovely granddaughter are doing.
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