Angel Gateway - Softcover

Adams, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330481320 ISBN 13: 9780330481328

Publisher: Pan Books, 2001

Synopsis

With this haunting tale of two tragic lives - separated by centuries but bonded by events - Jane Adams takes a huge step forward as one of the most original and talented crime writers of today.Six months after the horrific petrol bomb attack that left him severely burned, Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate his future. According to his aunt's diaries, the cottage is often frequented by a mysterious woman referred to only as 'Kitty'. But this is no ordinary visitor. For, Ray learns, Katherine Hallam once lived in the cottage - and was tried as a witch in 1643 . . . As he searches for an explanation for his own appalling injuries, Ray becomes increasingly captivated by the young woman who, like him, bears terrible facial scars. With the help of archive librarian Sarah Gordon he slowly pieces together her tragic tale, played out against the menacing backdrop of the English Civil War. But what Ray cannot even begin to comprehend is the role he himself played in sealing Kitty's fate - more than three hundred years before he was born . . .

About this title

From the Author:

Background to the novel
The Angel Gateway was conceived of long before I wrote my first novel, The Greenway, and I originally expected it to be simply an historical novel. The central character of Kitty Hallam was one I visualised strongly right from the outset. I knew, Kitty's history and some of what would happen to her but had no idea of how to put this into a book. It needed something else and early in my writing career I certainly would not have had the confidence to weave two storylines together as eventually happened in The Angel Gateway. So, it was put on hold and several years passed before I even re-read the original research notes that I had made. Then, the second storline began to emerge as Ray Flowers began to creep into my consciousness - actually, he's too big to creep and emerged with something of a large thump - and I knew I had my other character. Kitty had someone in the present day over whome she could have influence. Linking them took a little longer, a simple haunting didn't seem to be enough and then it occurred to me, what would happen if Ray began to haunt Kitty in her own time just as she affected him in his? The Angel Gateway itself is a location in Leicester, a little alleyway runnng between Gallowtree Gate and the market place and I always wondered how it got its name...

Synopsis:

After a bomb attack Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate the future. Old diaries refer to a visitor called Kitty - but Ray learns that she was tried as a witch in 1643, and like him, bore facial scars. He pieces together her life, and finds his own part in it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0330481320
• ISBN 13: 9780330481328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400