James Harpur: The Gospel of Gargoyle

A poet residing at the Irish College in Paris has a series of dreams in which he flies to the rooftop of Notre-Dame cathedral and encounters a gargoyle. But not any old gargoyle: this one can speak, and he claims to be a lost spirit seeking salvation through a series of incarnations. Gargoyle and Poet become unlikely companions, bound by a pact: in return for the poet’s visits and conversations on the great questions of life, Gargoyle promises to reveal the answer to the question obsessing Poet: who or what caused the great fire of Notre Dame in 2019.

‘I galloped through as if pulled by a silver thread. The ending is sublime.’ Alyson Hallett

‘A mighty dialogue of self and soul, a drama, a small epic… The ending is a little electric shock.’ Penelope Buckley