Glittering Images - Hardcover

Howatch, Susan

 
9780394562063: Glittering Images

Synopsis

Charged by Canterbury with the spiritual monitoring of a wayward bishop, Dr. Charles Ashworth, a young, driven Anglican minister, encounters a genteel world whose deeply embedded apostasy forces him to confront his own inner demons

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Review

"A Terrific Story...Glittering Images is driven by passion, emotional and spiritual, and its spiritual antagonists are brilliant characters."

-- San Jose Mercury News

"She May Well Be The Anthony Trollope Of The 20th Century."

-- Andrew Greeley, The Washington Post

"A Superior Novel."

-- Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Susan Howatch was born in Surrey. After getting a degree in law, she emigrated to America, where she married, had a daughter, and embarked on a career as a writer. When she eventually left the United States, she lived in the Republic of Ireland for four years before returning to England. She spent time in Salisbury--which was the inspiration for her Starbridge sequence of novels--and now lives in London.

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