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Peter Hobbs |
| Peter Hobbs grew up in Cornwall and Yorkshire, and now lives in London. He never intended to be a writer and originally worked for the Foreign Office. However, after picking up an enduring illness whilst travelling, he found himself writing short stories during his lengthy recovery. A collection of stories will be published by Faber in 2006 and one of his stories was recently included in Picador’s recent New Writing 13 anthology. |
| Evoking both the harsh realities and the beauty of rural life of the time, The Short Day Dying dramatises the struggle of an individual to find reason in mortality and the divine, and to determine his own place in the world. An extraordinarily accomplished debut, it also serves to introduce an important new voice – a stylist whose work is at once powerful, lyrical and intensely moving. |
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