The Bird in the Tree: Eliot Chronicles book 1

“She had not much hope of any wholesale change; only the creation of isolated homes of beauty from which, please God, the loveliness should spread...”

🍁 Elizabeth Goudge, The Bird in the Tree

• Getting ready to read the Eliots—Get a copy

• Introduction: Finding Redemption in the Modern Age

• Where is Damerosehay? (And how do you say it?)

• Keyhaven & its Birds of Happiness: Where is Keyhaven?

• Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls: The Kings Abdication, David’s Struggle for Happiness

• Flowers at Damerosehay: Transcendent nature

• Mid-book Discussion: Unselfish, Creative Love

• Buckler’s Hard and the Eliots: Goudge’s connection to Buckler’s Hard

• End of book discussion: Humbert Wolfe, Imperfect yet lovable character

The Eliot Chronicles

1. The Bird in the Tree

2. Pilgrim’s Inn (The Herb of Grace)

3. The Heart of the Family