Susan Howatch is a master storyteller and I consider her one of the best female writers of the last 30 years. Knowing the novels so well and in so much depth has not detracted at all from hearing them narrated, instead it has enhanced my pleasure. I have found the whole series absolutely riveting from beginning to end I have the books on my bookshelf and have revisited them many times since Glittering Images was published in 1987. It is in this novel that we meet Charles Ashworth as a young clergyman Absolute Truths tells his story when he is 65 and has become Bishop of Starbridge.
All six novels can be read independently but I would urge anyone contemplating reading or listening to this novel with no prior knowledge of the preceding five books where we are introduced to the main characters, Charles Ashworth, Jon Darrow and Neville Aysgarth to begin with the first book in the series, Glittering Images (unfortunately not available through Audible). Absolute Truths is the final volume of Susan Howatch?s Starbridge series written about the Church of England in the twentieth century.
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