Praise for David Farland and In The Company Of Angels
"A beautifully written, powerful account of a perfect storm on dry land"
Kenny Kemp
Author of My Father Was a Carpenter
"David Farland once again proves himself to be a wizard at storytelling"
Publisher's Weekly
"David Farland is derivative of no one, yet he writes within a tradition that is as old as storytelling. The tale is set in heroic times, in a land glimpsed only from a distance, but serves only to clarify and magnify tales that are also true for us in our relentlessly unheroic times."
Orson Scott Card
A luminous tale that breaks our hearts and sets our souls soaring.
David Farland’s moving masterpiece echoes the drama of
Gone with the Wind and the glory of Ghandi, sweeping from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches all those who read it.
In the Company of Angels centers on Eliza Gadd, the feisty, sophisticated wife of a Mormon bishop. When her husband answers his leader’s call to abandon his cottage in England and settle in the Rocky Mountains, Eliza’s world comes apart. She may help her husband pull a handcart with everything that they own across the plains of Utah, but she can’t bring herself to bow to a god she doesn’t believe in.
Stalled by setbacks, the pioneers find themselves forced to take their journey perilously late in the season. The lives of Eliza’s children hang in the balance. But how can she reason with people who believe they are in the hands of angels, that their faith can turn back storms, and that their leaders, like the Apostles of old, have the power to raise the dead?
Based on the true story of the Willie Handcart Company of 1856,
In the Company of Angels unfolds the triumphant tale of pioneers who struggle against unendurable hardships—persecution, buffalo stampedes, rampaging Indians, lingering starvation, and the early onset of the coldest winter in US history—to find the gentle homeland of the soul.
A tale of beguiling simplicity that erupts into spellbinding intensity,
In the Company of Angels is everything a reader could hope for—and more.
