Set in the previous century to Wilson’s novel, Cathedral is an ambitious epic telling the story of a fictional German city during the decades in which its cathedral is transformed from a visionary architect’s dreams into reality. A rich, occasionally bewildering array of characters peoples its pages...
Their stories interweave to create a memorable tapestry of politics, religion and conflicting human desires.
Comparisons are inevitable to Ken Follett’s bestselling book about the building of a cathedral, The Pillars of the Earth. Hopkins’s debut is the superior book: beautifully written and profoundly insightful about its very human characters and their yearning for both God and Mammon.
