The Spire
Cathedrals
Fiction, religious
Middle Ages
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction in English
Fiction, historical
Fiction, psychological
Design and construction
Fiction, thrillers, general
English literature
Fiction, general
Fiction
Told in a stream-of-consciousness narrative, this is a story of obsession. Against the advice of his builder, the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, slowly dying from tuberculosis, plans the construction of a towering spire atop the cathedral as the culmination of his life’s work but becomes increasingly …
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