Constellations and Consolations

Following the sudden death of her brother, a former chorister and a celebrated cabaret star, the author embarks on an extraordinary journey, geographical, spiritual and musical in her wish to understand the mystery of her brother’s soul.

From the Norfolk coast to the Baltic Sea, she follows the tides of ideas and music behind a pilgrim map that her brother had left for her and finds it is a route to peace and joy.

Sarah Sands is a former newspaper editor and former editor of BBC Radio 4s Today programme. She has published books about mythology, monasteries, nature and faith.