Towers in the Mist: Week 1

An Oxfordian Goudge Readalong, Feb 2024

Towers in the Mist by Elizabeth Goudge and The World of Elizabeth Goudge by Sylvia Gower on my office bookshelf.

“The north side of the quadrangle had not yet been built and Joyeuce looked from her window across the grass to a thicket of hawthorn trees that were a froth of silvery blossom. Beside them, to the right, were Peckwater Inn and Canterbury College, and beyond them were the roofs of the city and towers and spires rising out of the morning mist in marvelous beauty. To her right, as she leaned out of the window, Joyeuce could see the tower of the Cathedral surmounted by its thirteenth-century spire, and to her left she looked on the Fair Gate.

It still lacked its bell tower, and Great Tom, the bell that was destined one day to hang there, now tolled out the hour from the Cathedral…

The whole view was gloriously fair and Joyeuce almost worshiped it.”

Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist

Oxford town

Welcome to Oxford for our Goudge book this month, Towers in the Mist. If you have begin reading with us this week, you have already heard quite a bit about the celebration of May Day, and met all of Canon Leigh’s family who live in Christ Church.