A chance visit to the medieval place of worship reawakened my spiritual life, inspired a lifelong interest in such spaces, and eventually inspired a bestselling novel
n the mid-70s, when I was a young reporter on the London newspaper the Evening News, I was sent to Peterborough – then pretty much on the edge of the paper’s circulation area – to do a story. I had finished my interview, and had an hour to wait until the next train back to London, so, having nothing to do, I went to look at Peterborough Cathedral.
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