The Short Day Dying
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:16th Mar '06
£8.99
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The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs is a beautiful and highly acclaimed debut novel of rural passion set in nineteenth century Cornwall.
Charles Wenmoth is a blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the wildest reaches of South-West England. In his relationship with Harriet French, a blind girl who maintains her belief despite her debilitating condition, Wenmoth finds his fragile faith tested in the most trying of circumstances.Charles Wenmoth is a blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the wildest reaches of South-West England. It is 1870 and Wenmoth devotes his weekdays to work and the Sabbath to walking great distances to preach to dwindling congregations. Charles burns with faith - but it's a faith balanced by his pleasure in nature and the physical world around him. In his relationship with Harriet French, a blind girl who maintains her belief despite her debilitating condition, Wenmoth finds his fragile faith tested in the most trying of circumstances.
"'How rare it is to come across a new novel as beautifully conceived and finished as this... A wonderful book.' Kirsty Gunn, Observer '[Wenmoth] is a man of simple faith, whose observations both of the redemptive powers of nature and the cruel nature of rural poverty are beautifully written.' Ian Marchant, Guardian"
- Winner of Betty Trask Award 2006
- Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 2005
ISBN: 9780571217182
Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 14mm
Weight: 167g
208 pages
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