?6,500 Prayers

This book is a literary biography of Charles Wesley, the 18th-century English hymn writer, told through vivid novelistic prose. Born the nineteenth child of a poor rector in Epworth, Charles grew under his mother Susanna's rigorous faith, co-founded the Holy Club at Oxford, and led the Methodist movement alongside his brother John. After a failed Georgia mission and spiritual crisis, he experienced conversion on Pentecost 1738, ultimately composing over 6,500 hymns. The book portrays his fierce, unsilenced soul.