'Absorbing fascinating arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving luminous and rather
magnificent' The TimesIt was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of
London. In 2011 the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul's Cathedral. Giles Fraser who
was Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral gave them his support. It ended in disaster.This
remarkable book is the story of the personal crisis that followed and its surprising
consequences. Finding himself caught between the protesters the church and the City of London
Fraser resigned and was plunged into depression. As his life fell apart and he battled with
ideas of suicide he found himself by chance one day in Liverpool outside the great Victorian
synagogue once presided over by a distant ancestor. Suddenly Fraser realized that there was a
great deal he did not know about himself about his relatives and about his Jewish roots.Fraser
calls this book 'a ghost story' and it is a book which is indeed filled with many ghosts. His
search into his family's Jewish past makes this both a fascinating personal story and a
wonderful piece of writing about theology. It is a book about the deepest most ancient
elements in our culture and the most modern and intimate. It is throughout alive with the
charm and intellectual vigour which have made Fraser such an admired and controversial preacher
and broadcaster.
