Title: In the Company of Angels
Author: David Farland
Publisher: DFE
Release Date: September 1, 2009
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Size: 426 pages, hardcover
Genre: Historical
A test of the spirit. A triumph of faith.
A luminous tale that breaks our hearts and sets our souls soaring.
David Farland’s moving masterpiece echoes the drama of Gone with the Wind and the glory of Ghandi, sweeping from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches all those who read it.
In the Company of Angels centers on Eliza Gadd, the feisty, sophisticated wife of a Mormon bishop. When her husband answers his leader’s call to abandon his cottage in England and settle in the Rocky Mountains, Eliza’s world comes apart. She may help her husband pull a handcart with everything that they own across the plains of Utah, but she can’t bring herself to bow to a god she doesn’t believe in.
Stalled by setbacks, the pioneers find themselves forced to take their journey perilously late in the season. The lives of Eliza’s children hang in the balance. But how can she reason with people who believe they are in the hands of angels, that their faith can turn back storms, and that their leaders, like the Apostles of old, have the power to raise the dead?
Based on the true story of the Willie Handcart Company of 1856, In the Company of Angels unfolds the triumphant tale of pioneers who struggle against unendurable hardships—persecution, buffalo stampedes, rampaging Indians, lingering starvation, and the early onset of the coldest winter in US history—to find the gentle homeland of the soul.
Excellent novel. It makes the reader feel a closeness with these brave pioneers.
I recommend for everyone!
I think it sounds amazing. I love pioneer history so it would be something that we keep me all the way through.
I just finished this book. Good writing, and of course, excellent stories.