This book is by Ken Follett, and I have read the book version and thought it was very long and imaginative. I’ve also listened to this story as an audiobook that was narrated by John Lee and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The story is about a man named Tom Builder who is travelling, with his family as he tries to find work after losing a building job.

Then as Tom has dreamt of building a Cathedral, he is determined that, that will be his next job. However, his pregnant wife whose name is Agnes dies after giving birth to a boy which Tom abandoned, though the newborn is later found by a monk.

This monk then takes the infant to his monastery and the baby is named Jonathon.

Later on, Tom Builder finds work at this same church in Kingsbridge after a fire was deliberately lit. Though not by Tom.