The Calm in the Late Afternoon

A Towering Novel!Chuck Culver'S Best Workretired Doctor David Somerset Grief-Stricken With The Recent Loss Of His Beloved Wife Is Trying Painfully To Follow Through With Plans They Both Made To The English Cotswolds And To Restore A 600 Hundred Year Old Cottage. Although He Makes Friends With A Number Of Colorful Locals In The Town Of Winchcomb He Is Still Agonizing Over His Loss. Then Rescue Arrives In The Form Of A Mysterious Metal Box A Workman Finds In The Walls Of His Cottage. Inside The Box Straight From The 16Th Century Is A Rare Tyndale Bible The First English Translation Of The Scriptures And The Cause Of Thomas Tyndale'S Branding As A Heretic By The Catholic Church And His Burning At The Stake. Also Enclosed Is The Diary Of A Hitherto Unknown Priest Named Father Christopher Moore Who Was Tyndale'S Best Friend And Later A Chaplain In The Court Of Henry Viii. The Calm In The Late Afternoon Is One Of Those Novels That Is More Than A Read. It'S A Joyful Emersion In Life.