Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.
- ISBN13 9780571225460
- Publish Date 7 April 2005 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English