The Short Day Dying Author:Peter Hobbs This 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. It is 1870 and Wenmoth devotes his weekdays to work and the Sabbath to walking great distances to preach to dwindling congregations. Cha... more »rles 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. Amazing reviews for this debut novel have catapulted Peter Hobbs into the heart of the literary establishment. There are more reviews and festival appearances for the paperback publication. It features a beautiful pastoral paperback repackage, and is written by one of the most talented young writers around, and at the vanguard of British literary fiction.« less
Good literature about a lay minister in England and his struggles with faith. Sort of stream of consciousness with little punctuation make it a little harder to read, but I really enjoyed that it had no climax, an interesting period study.