The Interpreter

Jack cleans the children’s ward of a Hull hospital. He works the same route every day, in the same order, and most people stopped noticing him a long time ago. That suits him.

Then a child dies while he is mopping the floor of her room. The parents pray, and something in Jack that was closed a long time ago opens again.

The dreams come back. A valley full of dry bones. Wheels of fire. A throne above the smoke. Beasts climbing out of the sea. Jack has no words for what he sees at night, but the prophets did. Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel, Joel and John wrote it all down thousands of years ago.

His doctor has an explanation, careful and honest. An old priest has another, and a secret he has kept for twenty-seven years.

The Interpreter is a novel for anyone who has stood at the edge of their own certainty and felt it give a little. You can read Jack’s story as the work of a singular mind, and defend that reading to the last page. Or you can ask the question it leaves open: what if God is reaching out to him?

★★★★★

“This is a spare, tidy story. The main character, Jack, leads a humble life as a janitor. However, since childhood he has received dreams and visions from the Bible: Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel and Revelations, books he has never read and stories he has never heard. I found this book to be an uplifting step in my spiritual journey.”

RW Bennett · verified purchase on Amazon.com

★★★★★

“They say things come in threes…..must be true as this is Scott’s third brilliant book. It had me hooked from the start. The writing is brilliant and makes you connect with the characters and how they are feeling. The words used and how they are written really make you visual what is happening. It is a book that makes you truly, think, feel and be consumed by. Truly remarkable reading.”

BnS Watkins · verified purchase on Amazon