The title isn’t strictly accurate; just as often people hear, smell, feel or sense angels as they see them. What’s fascinating is the range of experiences, the way they have affected people and how often they contradict traditional ideas of angels and how often they confirm those ideas. However, none of the experiences reported in here match the deep strangeness that the Bible reports of angels, where they can appear in human guise but equally can take the form of vast creatures covered in eyes and fiery wheels, also eye covered.

As a curious aside, the author of this book, Emma Heathcote James, went on to found a successful soap company, called the Little Soap Company. It’s not clear whether she has kept up her interest in angels.