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Cashelmara (Paperback)

by Susan Howatch (Author)
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  • Paperback: 702 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (19 Mar 1976)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033024406X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330244060
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.2 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,028,706 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Grippingly readable' Sunday Times 'Larger than life... a fascinating saga... it has all the right dramatic and romantic ingredients' Woman's Journal 'A mesmerising storyteller' Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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'Truly unputdownable' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly compelling, 25 May 2008
By D. Clark (Lincoln UK) - See all my reviews
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I'm not usually a 'saga' fan- but this was in a league of it's own. The characters were so vivid, the story swept me along, I could not get enough, but was then devastated when I'd finished it! By default I now understand far more about Irish history in addition to enjoying such a fabulous read.
Susan Howatch never disappoints me- this was quite different from the Starbridge and St Benet's series; she has so many incredibly fascinating facets to her talent.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant, 21 Nov 2007
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I can't understand why no one has reviewed this book as it's one of the best I've ever read. The story is absolutely brilliant. The characters are so very realistic and flawed. I can't recommend this highly enough and the historical detail about Ireland is stunning.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "The match flared in the darkness, his eyes watched me above the single steady flame..", 28 Feb 2009
By Misfit (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I cannot recall the last time a scene from a book has so thoroughly chilled me to the bone (and there were plenty more besides), but you'll have to read it for yourself to see what I'm talking about - I'm not telling! Set in Ireland in the latter part of the 19C, Howatch recounts three generations of the wealthy English de Salis family in six separate "books", each of those being in the first person POV of different characters.

Older Edward de Salis visits his distant cousins the Marriotts in New York and brings a much younger Marguerite home as his bride. Despite the great difference in their ages, the two are well matched and soon have children of their own to add to Edward's brood from his first marriage. When Edward's eldest son Patrick inherits the de Salis lands and fortune, he marries Marguerite's niece Sarah and upon their return from New York they live in London until their lavish lifestyle and Patrick's gambling brings it to a screeching halt. Forced to economize, Sarah and Patrick start life fresh at Cashelmara but Edward comes under the influence of childhood friend Derry Stranahan. Derry's unnatural hold over Patrick continues to grow and leads to clashes in his marriage and with his Irish tenants until Derry's fate is sealed during an Irish riot. Eventually Sarah finds her hopes to repair the marriage and run a profitable estate are hindered once again by Patrick's too close relationship with another man - Hugh McGowan. Sarah soon finds herself an unwilling member of a triangle that for the sake of her children she endures until......well you know I don't tell all.

Howatch takes the reader on quite ride in this one as Sarah's desperate situation forces her to make an unwise alliance of her own until she can return - although that return sets in place another set of circumstances leading to a death by natural causes - or is there something more going on here? If this is sounding a bit like you've heard this story before, you're probably right. Howatch based her characters on the lives of England's first three Edwards and that's really half the fun of reading this novel. Can you spot Piers Gaveston? Hugh Despenser? Isabella and her lover Mortimer?

All in all a near perfect read, the scenes between Patrick, Sarah and Hugh were downright bone chilling, let alone the effects of the famine on the Irish tenants. Darn near unputdownable, although the last hundred or so pages did slow down just a tad, and the ending it self just a bit too abrupt - although at 700 pages enough was probably enough. 4.5/5 stars and the story of the third "Edward" continues in Wheel of Fortune - but with entirely different characters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic read!
I absolutely loved this book! The cover and title might not look very appetising but it is absolutely brilliant! I could not put it down! Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant!!
This book is definately one of the best books I've ever read!! Totally "un-putdownable". I just couldn't stop reading it and had it finished within a few days! Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars A must to read do not allow the size and length alarm you!
This is the first book of susan howatch's that i have read and i have thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a long book but a great book to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, a masterpiece, the best book I have ever read
I loved every page of this book, Susan is a genius. 702 pages of pure intrigue with occasional shocks and suspense along the way.
Published on 4 Aug 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books ever written
Anything written by Susan Howatch should be read. So far, I read 4 of her books without being dissapointed.

Don't worry about the number of pages, you'll be hooked by her talent.

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