Philip Bray

I spent most of my working life in sales and marketing in the food industry.
I have also worked as a fundraising consultant and later in driver training.
The Swaddling is a Historical Thriller trilogy, of which Search for the Healing Cloth is the first to be published.
The idea for the novel was born when I was studying the Magi and their impact on the nativity story. The Lost Gospel of Joseph intrigued me and a nagging question. Did Mary present a piece of the swaddling cloth that the baby Jesus was wrapped in to the Magi, and did it have the supernatural healing powers the Gospel claimed? If so, how far would someone go to find it and more importantly who would they heal?
I live in south Manchester with my wife in an empty nest that my three sons have fledged from. My four beautiful grandchildren have taken me hostage.