A City of Bells: Torminster book 1

“If this was not Paradise [Henrietta] would have liked to be told what was…” — Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells

A City of Bells: Torminster book 1

• How to find a copy of A City of Bells

• Introduction: Setting location, time period, Wells’ Vicar’s Close, and why these books have never been sold as a trilogy

• Goudge’s Birthplace

• Week 1: Torminster, Jocelyn’s destiny, the Clock, & Shelley’s Ode

• Goudge’s Childhood Home

• Week 2: All Saints & Inside Wells Cathedral

• Bookish Goudge

• Week 3: Pied Piper, Goudge as Playwright, Beauty & the Bishop's Palace

• Bookchat

• Week 4

The Torminster Series *

1. A City of Bells

2. Sister of the Angels

3. Henrietta’s House (The Blue Hills, US Title)