After the critically acclaimed 'Boy in the World', comes the follow-up novel from bestselling author, Niall Williams. Follow Jay as he continues in his search for his father. We left him in Ethiopia under the caring wing of Sister Bridget. But he still feels the pull to find his missing father - the link between his past and his future.

When a series of unusual events bring Irish schoolteacher Stephen Griffin to meet Gabriella Castoldi, he instantly falls in love. The spellbinding Italian musician, however, needs more persuasion which comes in the unlikely form of Stephen's father.

John the Apostle and his followers leave the island to which they have been banished, embarking on a journey that will change their lives forever and test their belief - in love and in each other - to breaking point.

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the...

The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain

One family, five journeys - and a story that lives on long after the last page is turned.