Read This: The Imaginary Village of Niall Williams

Over four decades Niall Williams has made a name for himself as one of Ireland’s leading novelists. In his latest novel, Time of the Child , Niall returns to the fictional village of Faha, in west Ireland, the setting of his previous book, This Is Happiness . Time of the Child centres on the notion of familial love, and as he explains to Michael in this week’s episode, Niall couldn’t have written it without becoming a grandfather himself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.