Penmarric
 Excellent Epic.: Wow! What an engrossing novel to read! This was the first Susan Howatch novel I've read, but it certainly won't be the last. The scope and cast of characters is simply huge, and yet is handled in a manner that you're never confused as to [... more]
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Glittering Images
Perfect Title: Read this book (with lots of patience) if you are looking to understand your own 'glittering image.' We all seem to have one whether or not we are aware of it. The characters were very well defined. What was not described was easy to fill [... more]
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Scandalous Risks
May-December Affair Brilliantly Told!: Here I had just settled into the idea that the rest ofHowatch's "Church" books were going to be just 4 star reads,when I read this one, her very best. Told from the point of view ofVenetia, a 26 year old [... more]
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Mystical Paths
introducing Nick...: The second trilogy in the Starbridge books takes place in the 1960's. In this book Jon Darrow's son Nick is now a young man shortly before his ordination as a priest. Nick is in no way a model ordinand. Like his father he has psychic [... more]
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Cashelmara
Gripping Multigenerational Saga Of The English In Ireland: Susan Howatch has written a gripping multigenerational tale of a titled English family who live on their Irish estate, Cashelmara, during the 19th century. This family saga is interwoven with [... more]
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Wheel of Fortune
Doing the Done Thing and Here I Draw the Line: This is by far one of the best books that I have ever read and that is saying alot since I have been reading for twenty years. Susan Howatch is a true storyteller. The book is divided into 6 chapters, the [... more]
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Dark Shore Waiting Sands Call
Worth reading: A detective story, close to the "How done it?" genre. Most of te time it keeps the reader suspense, although most of the time it gets to imaginary. Certainly, this isn't a "must have" book, but a light and nice book... [... more]
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The High Flyer
From Amazon.com: "When I first saw my temporary secretary it never occurred to me to flirt with him." The bemused confidence and upended assumption of this first sentence from The High Flyer, by Susan Howatch, reveal a great deal about the [... more]
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Glittering Images
Perfect Title: Read this book (with lots of patience) if you are looking to understand your own 'glittering image.' We all seem to have one whether or not we are aware of it. The characters were very well defined. What was not described was easy to fill [... more]
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Glamorous Powers
the best of thr lot: The second in the series of Starbridge books - Glamorous Powers - is the one I liked the best. IN this book we get to know Jon Darrow, who figured in the first volume Glittering Images as Charles Ashworth's spiritual director, more [... more]
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The Heartbreaker: A Novel
A Page-Turner with Enormous Substance: Two short years ago, UK author Susan Howatch hit me like a ton of bricks. An innovative theology professor listed GLITTERING IMAGES --- the first in her absorbing and provocative "Starbridge" sextet about [... more]
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Absolute Truths
Very Satisfying Conclusion To 6 Book Series: When we started out in Book #1, the narrator, Charles Ashworth, was still fairly young. In this novel, he is again the narrator but he is elderly and the bishop of Starbridge. Being this age, he can wind up [... more]
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