Publisher's Synopsis
In the remote Dorset village of East Chaldon, T.F. Powys wrote a steady succession of novels, novellas, fables and short stories which first appeared in print during the 1920s and early 1930s. These tales of startling originality and strange beauty offer wry observations on the human condition, the enigma of God, and arresting insights into the nature of good and evil, infused with subtle and dark humour of the rarest vintage. In this, the author's final masterpiece, John Death arrives in the obscure Dorset village of Little Dodder with instructions to unclay two of its inhabitants. Unfortunately for him, Death loses the divine parchment bearing the names of the doomed pair, and is obliged to stay in Little Dodder until he finds it. And in the course of that summer he acquires a taste for life.
