Absolute Truths - Hardcover

Howatch, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002239817 ISBN 13: 9780002239813

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

Synopsis

Following "Glittering Images", "Glamorous Powers", "Ultimate Prizes", "Scandalous Risks", "Mystical Paths" and "Absolute Truths", this book concludes a series of novels set against the backdrop of the power and politics of the Church of England in the 20th century.

About this title

Review:

'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

From the Back Cover:

1968, with the swinging sixties sliding into decadence, finds Nicholas Darrow wrestling with overwhelming personal problems: How can he bring himself to marry his fiancee, Rosalind, when he is unable to avoid promiscuity? How can he become a priest when he finds it so difficult to live as one? And how can he break his dangerous dependence on his father Jon, whose psychic gifts he shares?

It is at this crucial moment in his life that Nick becomes involved in the mystery surrounding his friend, Christian Aysgarth. Gradually, he realises that discovering the truth about this enigmatic and complex man will unlock the answers to his own baffling problems. However, his journey through darkness into the light reverses all the old certainties and, in his experiments with his psychic powers, Nick risks even his own life and sanity.

"She is writing for anyone who can recognise that mysterious gift of the true storyteller."
DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Utterly addictive"
JILLY COOPER

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0002239817
• ISBN 13: 9780002239813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500