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'I read on, wriggling on a hypnotic storyteller's hook' Daily Telegraph
'Every bit as good as Trollope' Liverpool Echo
'A tour de force… Susan Howatch has been likened to a twentieth-century version of Trollope. To make such a comparison is to fail to do her justice' Church of England Newspaper
'Howatch writes thrillers of the heart and mind … everything in a Howatch novel cuts close to the bone and is of vital concern' New Woman
'Riveting… extremely moving and often very funny… She is a deft storyteller, and her writing has depth, grace and pace' Sunday Times
'She is writing for anyone who can recognise that mysterious gift of the true storyteller' Daily Telegraph
'One of the most original novelists writing today' Cosmopolitan
'The best female writer in Britain today' Birmingham Evening Mail
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Reissue of the author’s most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.
Charles Ashworth is privileged, pampered and pleased with himself. As Bishop of Starbridge in 1965 he 'purrs along as effortlessly as a well-tuned Rolls-Royce' while he proclaims his famous 'absolute truths' to a society which he sees - with rage and revulsion - as increasingly immoral and disordered. But then a catastrophe tears his life apart and confronts him with the real absolute truths, truths which so shatter him that he finds himself stripped of his pride and struggling for survival.
Grappling with the revelation that he has failed his wife, short-changed one son and distorted the personality of the other, Charles's guilt steadily drives him into the immoral and disordered life he has condemned so violently in others. Fighting against the threat of complete breakdown, he then embarks on a quest to rebuild not only his private life but his professional life, a quest which leads him to a final battle with his old enemy Dean Aysgarth in the shadow of Starbridge Cathedral.
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I must not forget to mention that in this novel Starbridge Cathedral itself - in the other books merely a background stat - becomes a major character, and a star player during the Grande Finale The climax of this book is not only deeply moving, it is also absolutely perfect. As is the entire series.
In this particular sense this book reminds me of the Old Testament in which all of Jahweh's prophets come short. David had his Bathsheba, even Moses never got to see the Promised Land.
I am not a great novel reader these days and when I do latch on to an author I sometimes am in for the long haul. In the last ten years I have read about fifteen books by Doris Lessing and about the same number by le Carre. I am now heading off to the next trilogy by Susan Howatch.
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