The Humpherys Family

The Dean's Watch
Record Added: 10/23/2013
Author 
Illustrator 
Setting England
Topic Adult Fiction, Classics
Publisher Coward-McCann
Year 1960
Age Adult   Pages 383
Description Printed dustjacket
  
This novel takes place in a remote Cathedral city in England; the reader is drawn into various peoples'lives, central among them the Dean of the Cathedral. It is the story of the way that this humble man, who is unaware of the impact of his simple love for God and his fellow man, deeply affects many in his city. It is a beautifully told story of the healing power of love.

An English cathedral town in the mid-nineteenth century forms the background for the warm and gentle story of Isaac Peabody, an obscure clockmaker, a dreamer but a dedicated craftsman, and of Adam Ayscough, the brilliant, pious Dean of the Cathedral, whose great love for his parishioners is stifled by his own unconquerable shyness.