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Susan Howatch is een Britse romanschrijfster, geprezen om haar bestsellers vol mysteries en uitgestrekte familiesaga's. Haar werk duikt diep in de ingewikkelde dynamiek van menselijke relaties en maatschappelijke kwesties, vaak afspelend tegen de achtergrond van de Kerk van Engeland. Howatch betovert lezers met haar zorgvuldige proza en diepe psychologische inzichten, en creëert meeslepende werelden bevolkt door gedenkwaardige personages. Haar kenmerkende vertelstijl en boeiende verhalen hebben haar internationale erkenning en een toegewijd lezerspubliek bezorgd.







Een jonge, ambitieuze, anglicaanse geestelijke krijgt van zijn aartsbisschop opdracht een collega-bisschop, die van ontoelaatbaar seksueel gedrag verdacht wordt, te bespioneren.
Welsh heir Robert Godwin knows everything about his powerful family's interests, but what does he know of his own heart? Tucked in the hills of South Wales is Oxmoon, the ancestral estate of the Godwin family. In the summers before 1914, music streams through the family home as the Godwins, at the height of their prosperity, dance in the ballroom with their guests. But despite the remarkable talents of heir-apparent Robert Godwin, the fates have a rough, tough ride planned for him and those he loves. Fortunes shift during two world wars, disastrous love affairs leave the family battered, and finally jealousy threatens to destroy Oxmoon and all it symbolizes. Based on a true story that has been updated to modern times, "The Wheel of Fortune" is a timeless tale of love, hatred, revenge, redemption, and forgiveness. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
Twee mensen willen hun huwlijk dat gestrand is een nieuwe kans geven. Dit stuit op moeilijkheden omdat het zusje van de vrouw, dat met haar man een verhouding had, plotseling verdwenen is.
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.
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.
Jon Darrow, a man with psychic powers, is a man who has played many parts: a shady faith-healer; a naval chaplain, a passionate husband, an awkward father, an Anglo-Catholic monk. In 1940 Darrow returns to the world he once renounced, but faced with many unforeseen temptations he fails to control his psychic, most glamorous powers. Corruption lies in wait for him, and threatens not only his future as a priest but his happiness with Anne, the young woman he has come to love.
Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra, as they waltz to 'The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon, his beloved family home in Wales. As Robert discovers, his rational, well- ordered mind will be forever altered by his obsession for Ginevra, and his destiny will be forever linked to Oxmoon by the skeletons which lurk in the family closet...For fifty years, from the sinister summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, the Godwin family are sucked into a maelstrom of passion, disorder, madness and murder. Fortunes rise and fall in this sweeping, compulsive tale, until the Wheel of Fortune finally comes full circle