The Dean's Watch

Description for THE DEAN'S WATCH by Elizabeth Goudge:

Set in a Cathedral city in the 1870s, a town dominated by the great cathedral and its formidable Dean. The craggy, homely old Dean, locked in by shyness... a timid, fearful little Isaac Peabody, a genius of a clockmaker. The unexpected friendship of these two men; the Dean's remarkable awakening to the healing force of unselfish love; and the miracles wrought as he reached out to other human hearts to console them. And in the background there are Polly and her beloved Job, Bella and old Mrs Montague.