The Lent Factor by Graham James shows clearly and simply how the human character is best described by telling stories about people.

The Lent Factor describes forty very different people - one for each day of Lent. Each has a special quality about them that shines through their stories to illuminate how their faith is connected to their individual characteristics. The theme of each brief story is reflected upon through a scene, passage or word from the Bible.

The cast list includes Edith Cavell, Philip Toynbee (father of Polly), UA Fanthorpe, Dorothy Sayers, Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver), WH Auden, Julian of Norwich, Bishop Reginald Heber and many others from different backgrounds and diverse periods of history, some famous and some entirely unknown.

The writer's use of a cross to mark out the 'X' factor within human beings becomes more and more significant as the journey through Lent approaches Holy Week and Easter.