Visiting Angel

£6.49

Visiting Angel

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Author: Paul Wilson

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Language: English

Published by: Tindal Street

Published on: 7th April 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 450 Kb

ISBN: 9781906994594


Patrick's Journey

Patrick is a care worker at a halfway house, helping fragile souls build independent lives. He''s a good man who''s lost his compass while carrying the weight of the world - and he''s shattered when a resident with learning difficulties is arrested and accused of abducting a girl from a local estate.

The Encounter with Saul

One day Patrick is called to talk to a man on a window ledge claiming to be an angel. He is shocked to find that Saul, a charming and uncannily perceptive man, looks exactly like Patrick''s deceased older brother Liam. In the orphanage in which they spent their childhood, Liam was Patrick''s protector and hero - until he ran away to become a writer in New York and they never saw each other again.

Saul's Mission

Saul carries a set of white cards with a different person''s name written on each: his angelic mission to help each and every one of them before the week is out. In this he is aided by a clinic nurse, Sarah, still mourning the death of her daughter in a road accident, who (when treating him for an STI) sees that Saul really does have miraculous powers to help people in trouble.

The True Purpose

But Patrick is the only one who can confront the real purpose of Saul''s visit. Can it possibly help him come to terms with his troubled childhood and dangerously conflicted present?

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