All the World Beside Audiobook

A heartwrenching story of love family and spirituality People Magazine

From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased an electrifying deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England

Cana Massachusetts a utopian vision of 18thcentury Puritan New England To the outside world Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their smalltown community drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold One such Christian physician Arthur Lyman discovers in the ministers words a love so captivating it transcends language

As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets lies and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold igniting a new era of zealotry Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation imagining a future for themselves which has no name Their wives and children must do the same looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness both physical and spiritual

Set during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped Americas destiny and following in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief Bestselling author Garrard Conley has created a pageturning vividly imagined historical tale that is both a love story and a crucible