All her life Alice has had to fight to survive. As a child she was sexually abused by the family priest; later she struggled to cope with the death of her sister. But when she marries the wealthy and dangerous Paddy Lynch, she discovers the darkness ...
Irish writer William Wall's total command of words is demonstrated again.... There is something painterly about the way William Wall draws his characters, using just two or three deft strokes to bring a character to life... Little of what happens in ...
WINNER OF THE 2017 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZESelected by David GatesWilliam Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. “Suddenly I see weeks that are like years stretch out before me. Islands are, more than any...
An Irish Independent Book of the Year.
As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville.
'An underrated vetera...