This doctoral thesis is a study of the portrayal of God through an analysis of the characters’ interactions in and with places in a selection of twelve contemporary English and Scottish novels, namely David Lodge’s "How Far Can You Go?" (1980), Muriel Spark’s "The Only Problem" (1984), Jeanette Winterson’s "Boating for Beginners" (1985), Peter Ustinov’s "The Old Man and Mr. Smith" (1991), Sara Maitland’s "Home Truths" (1993), Hilary Mantel’s "A Change of Climate" (1994), Michael Arditti’s "Easter" (2000), James Wood’s "The Book Against God" (2003), Salley Vickers’s "Mr Golightly’s Holiday" (2003), A.L. Kennedy’s "Paradise" (2004), Andrew O’Hagan’s "Be Near Me" (2006) and finally Nicholas Mosley’s "God’s Hazard" (2009). It shows, in the selected corpus, how the novelists’ fictional construction of places mirrors the portrayal of the divinity in their novels. After the brief theoretical prolegomena devoted to the definition of ‘place’ and its triangular association with the Christian divinity and characters in the novels, the four subsequent chapters follow a spatial logic. The home, church, nature and movement between places are in turn explored through a comparative analysis of two to five novels. Due to the multi-layered meaning of both places and God, the same locus can trigger varied depictions of the divinity. Each chapter examines the initial association between the place and the Godhead and its development for the characters, highlights the narrative strategies explored by the writers and establishes how the concrete and tangible place – in both its physical and emotional components – points to more universal dilemmas, such as the theodicy problem, the question of identity and the meaning of life. By revealing the importance of places in shaping spirituality, this thesis demonstrates that whether the portrayal of God is dynamic or static, characters’ (non-)experiences of God are embodied: it is out of a placed experience that protagonists reflect upon the divinity.