Carol Willis

Hours of your life you will never get back: implausible plot and characters; no reflective moments of Individualisation of characters; loose vague product placements doing nothing. If reading Great Expectations could be compared to sipping fine wine or eating expensive chocolate, this is binge-eating an entire monster bag of Haribo washed down with Fanta. Rubbish

This book is absolutely brilliant. It took a while to get into as you become part of an historical conversation but then it is as unputdownable as any thriller. Genuinely moving, profoundly spiritual and in places ghostly and hair-raising. I now feel compelled to go to Durham and to go the St Cuthbert’s Way Pilgrimage. Extraordinarily beautiful writing.