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I don't know how Goudge writes introspection without navel-gazing, but she does it better than anyone I've ever read. Perhaps it's because she does it in company? Here's a bit of dialogue about eternity that manages to be between two people and yet personal and general,too.
"Why didn't you kill yourself after all?"
"Your Grandfather. We'd always argued together and though I was far too apathetic to be convinced by any of his arguments I remember them because of my affection for him. One of them w ...more
"Why didn't you kill yourself after all?"
"Your Grandfather. We'd always argued together and though I was far too apathetic to be convinced by any of his arguments I remember them because of my affection for him. One of them w ...more
Gentle, charming parable on healing and forgiveness wrapped up in a cozy village package.
Jocelyn Irvin was wounded and discharged after service in the Boer War. He now walks with a limp, worn out in body and soul, and far too depressed to tolerate the bracing family suggestions of trying for a desk job in Whitehall or a position as someone’s secretary in the House of Commons. “He was being difficult and knew it…in pity for his family he decided to go and stay with his grandfather, Canon Fordyce ...more
Jocelyn Irvin was wounded and discharged after service in the Boer War. He now walks with a limp, worn out in body and soul, and far too depressed to tolerate the bracing family suggestions of trying for a desk job in Whitehall or a position as someone’s secretary in the House of Commons. “He was being difficult and knew it…in pity for his family he decided to go and stay with his grandfather, Canon Fordyce ...more
A gentle story of destinies that collide in the fictional cathedral city of Torminster. Jocelyn comes to Torminster to recuperate, but soon finds himself the owner of a building whose previous inhabitant left some manuscripts on his disappearance. Elizabeth Goudge writes beautifully and creates lovely characters.
First in a whimsical series set in an English Cathedral town, influenced by the author's childhood in Ely as the daughter of an Anglican minister.
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