The Short Day Dying

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2006
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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 195
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: 20 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0156032414
ISBN 13: 9780156032414

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A haunting debut limns the spiritual and social struggles of an apprentice blacksmith in 19th-century Cornwall.... Bleak, but profoundly beautiful. Hobbs is a writer to watch.

UK PRAISE FOR THE SHORT DAY DYING
How rare it is to come across a new novel as beautifully conceived and finished as this. We are enclosed completely in a world of faith and belief that has been made to feel utterly authentic . . . A wonderful book. -THE OBSERVER
A richly resonant novel . . . beautifully evocative.
-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

UK PRAISE FOR THE SHORT DAY DYING
How rare it is to come across a new novel as beautifully conceived and finished as this. We are enclosed completely in a world of faith and belief that has been made to feel utterly authentic . . . A wonderful book. -THE OBSERVER

A richly resonant novel . . . beautifully evocative.
-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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