by PeterHobbs (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 16 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0571217184
ISBN 13: 9780571217182
Book Overview: The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs is a beautiful and highly acclaimed debut novel of rural passion set in nineteenth century Cornwall.