A Clare-based writer claims the west of the county served as the primary inspiration for his new award-winning novel.
Kilmihil author Niall Williams’s ‘Time of the Child’ is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award.
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The book is set in the fictional West Clare village of Faha during the Christmas of 1962 and centres on a father and daughter whose lives are changed immeasurably when a baby is left in their care.
Niall says a coastal community in Clare was the ideal backdrop to the story.
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