The Spire

About this book

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 deranged as the construction faces constant problems due to the sheer grandiosity of the work.

• Fiction
• Design and construction
• Cathedrals
• Middle Ages
• Fiction in English
• Fiction, historical
• Fiction, general
• Fiction, thrillers, general