by Susan Howatch · Fontana Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006175926
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«Glittering Images» is a historical novel by Susan Howatch, published by Fontana Press in paperback (512 pages, in English).
It follows the Reverend Charles Ashworth, a Cambridge academic sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury to investigate a love triangle at the residence of the Bishop of Starbridge. Ashworth's investigation shakes his own faith and confronts him with the contradictions between personal morality and religious life in twentieth-century England.
First installment of the Starbridge series. The novel was originally published in 1987; this Fontana Press edition dates from 1988.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas, with an interest in plots where faith and personal morality come into conflict.
Susan Howatch is a British author. Her writing career has been distinguished by family saga-type novels that describe the lives of related characters for long periods of time. Her later books have also become known for their religious and philosophical themes.
