On the evening of 9 February 1709 fire engulfed Epworth Rectory, the Leicestershire home of Samuel and Susanna Wesley. At first, the rector believed that he had led all his family to safety. Then he realised that one of his sons was still inside the house. Twice he attempted a rescue, and twice the flames beat him back. But somehow the six-year-old boy escaped - a "brand plucked from the burning" - destined, his mother felt, for greater things.
In this remarkable biography, Roy Hattersley looks back over the remarkable life and enduring influence of John Wesley, leader of the second Reformation and founder of the Methodist Church.
'A Brand From The Burning' is a fascinating account of one of the architects of modern Britain, a man whose influence on the new industrial working class would play a major part in shaping society during the century of Britain's greatest power, and whose passion and belief led his Methodism to become a worldwide religion.
