01522cam a2200301 i 4500 1262031056 TxAuBib 181130s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781635574203 163557420X (OCoLC)13210 TxAuBib rda Williams, Niall, 1958-, author. This is happiness / Niall Williams. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 380 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of the living. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets for which he needs to atone. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity and Noel investigates his own coming-of-age and his fallings in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world. Communities Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Manners and customs Fiction. Rites and ceremonies Fiction. Ireland Fiction. Bildungsromans.