Glittering Images

Glittering Images
Susan Howatch

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.Beneath the smooth surface of an Episcopal palace lurks the salacious breath of scandal. Charles Ashworth is sent to untangle the web of self-delusion and corruption only to become embroiled in a strange ménage à trois that threatens to expose the secrets of his own past…In Glittering Images tension and drama combine in a compelling novel of people in high places, of desperate longings and the failure to resist them, of lies and evasions, of tarnished realities behind brilliant glittering images.

Susan Howatch

GLITTERING IMAGES

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First published in Great Britain by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1987

Copyright © Leaftree Ltd 1987

Extracts from The Bishoprick Papers, Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson, More Letters of Herbert Hensley Henson and Spiritual Counsels and Letters of Baron Friedrich von Hugel Printed by kind permission of SPCK.

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From the reviews:

‘Susan Howatch may well be the Anthony Trollope of the 20th century. Howatch is more than just a novelist of ideas … She is a skilled storyteller who makes the reader wonder, and care about her people’

Andrew Greeley, Washington Post

‘Rich in human interest, sex, scandal, moral crises and a good deal of humour, it is a book to keep you hooked throughout’

Sunday Times

‘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

‘Susan Howatch … 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

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FOR BARBARA,

in memory of our conversations

about the two Herberts.

CONTENTS

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