num_pages: 199
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Short Day Dying
titlecomplete: The Short Day Dying
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion, Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 179
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Holyer an Gof
category: The Cornish Literary Guild Salver, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Faber and Faber