Reading Group - Hawksmoor

The lives and paths of an Eighteenth Century architect and a Twentieth Century detective loop round each other as, over two hundred years apart, they cross the densely haunted urban landscape of the City of  London. In his fascinatingly detailed, powerfully atmospheric 1985 novel, Peter Ackroyd drew upon his matchless knowledge of the capital's hidden history to create a richly imagined fiction that combines thick sense of mystery with a poetic and provocative exploration of time, culture and human motivation.