This Is Happiness

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 - the electricity is finally arriving. A tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failure and triumphs. From the author of the Booker-longlisted "History of Rain".