The Short Day Dying

The Short Day Dying

by PeterHobbs (Author)

Synopsis

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: 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.

Media Reviews
'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
Author Bio
Peter Hobbs is the author of two novels, The Short Day Dying and In The Orchard, The Swallows, as well as a collection of short stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train. His work has won a Betty Trask Award, and been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a writer-in-residence for the schools literacy charity, First Story.