Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Monthly Newsletter

Join Now

The Second Sleep

The Second Sleep

Author(s): Robert Harris

Location(s): Hampshire, Berkshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Late 15th century

Location

Content

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – coins, fragments of glass, human bones – which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?

Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes – about himself, his faith and the history of his world – will be tested to destruction.

Review this Book

To review this book, please

Log in

Book Reviews

Lead Review

Author: tripfiction

The Second Sleep is set in the Year of the Risen Lord 1468. A newly ordained priest is sent on a mission to Wessex to bury a village minister who has just died. The...

Read review