God Breathes His Dreams Through Nathaniel Cadwallader

By Charlotte Fairbairn

Book Overview

This debut novel by a British author is a magical story of belief, superstition, and innocence lost for anyone who loved Chocolat and The Alchemist. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075530182X
• ISBN13: 9780755301829
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Headline Review
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

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Charlotte Fiarbain has written a haunting, lyrical and simple tale of a valley that finds a golden age when woodcarver Nathaniel Cadwallader rides into town. The story begins violently with a rape and sets the stage as time magically flows over the hamlet, taking a priest, a town leader and various families with it. The sad conclusion -- perhaps the only one possible -- brings with it a remorse. The best characters are Donald, a silent child who grows into a silent confidant, and Tom, a would-be leader haunted by an incident in the woods. The story picks up its tempo when a teenage girl raised wild comes to town and draws the town -- priest, woodcarver, Donald, Tom, the lot -- to their destruction and exile.