In every generation there are those who believe eternal life is the one way forward for humankind...Manchester, 1605 and Simeon is torn from his mother to sing at the cathedral school. In the here and now of modern Manchester, Kate's father has mysteriously vanished. Suddenly Simeon and Kate's lives are bound together by the power of the cathedral's Angel stone. One of them must make a terrible sacrifice. But who will it be - and at what cost to their future? And their past?

 

There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Livi Michael is the author of a number of adult books and her writing has been compared to early Pat Barker. She lives in Saddleworth, Yorkshire.