This is Happiness

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST NOVEL IN THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain. But one morning the rain stops and news reaches the parish – electricity is finally arriving. With it comes a lodger to Noel’s home, Christy McMahon.

Though he can’t explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed.