Absolute Truths

Name: Absolute Truths
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Howatch
ISBN: 9781433273599

Author: Susan Howatch

Narrator: Robert Whitfield

Unabridged: 20 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 12/08/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Charles Ashworth, the bishop of Starbridge, is a man of great accomplishment, confidence, and conviction. Within the Church, he has earned a reputation as a strong, efficient, nononsense bishop. Outside the Church, he is known as AntiSex Ashworth.But when Ashworths beloved wife dies, a profound crisis of his faith begin. unexpectedly and with brutal force. As bereavement overwhelms his spiritual equilibrium, his strict morality is quickly revealed to him to be nothing more than a faade. Spiraling downwards, Ashworth knows he must find his way out of the maze of his own psyche. In doing so, he will face the most difficult spiritual test of his life: to acknowledge the absolute truthsboth good and badthat have shaped his past, and that may be the only keys to his future.

About Susan Howatch

Susan Howatch is a
British novelist who has penned bestselling mysteries, family sagas, and
other novels. Howatch was born in Surrey, England. She began writing as
a teen and published her first book when she moved to the United States
in 1964. Howatch found global success first with her five sagas and
then with her novels about the Church of England in the twentieth
century. She has now returned to live in Surrey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Keith on April 14, 2014

This is the only book I have ever read that, at one crucial point, did not just bring me to tears. It elicited from me a convulsive bout of deep mourning, sorrow for all that had happened in the lives of the people Susan Howatch had created in this entire series. I had to put the book down and bury......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on October 08, 2021

A very busy book (though I kept thinking in the end was she going to have time to wrap up all the pieces?). And just like her, she surprises you by the narrator-let's go back to the first guy and back in time since book 5. I loved the way the books interweave and especially how the three main guys a......more

Goodreads review by Tom on September 10, 2013

I could have rated this as high as 4 stars if it had been 200 pages, but 600+ was bloating and exhausting. I plodded on because it is required for a spiritual direction practicum and I was determined to find out why. There is some good stuff here about forgiveness and the art of spiritual direction,......more

Goodreads review by Warren on September 07, 2010

I thought this was the very best of the series. The characters were believable multi-faceted. Maybe it's because I'd gotten to know them so well. Any way, I think I liked this one best. I also think that the spiritual message of 'integration' redemption and modeling of the MIddle Way of Anglicanism w......more

Goodreads review by Karen on December 29, 2017

This is the 6th and final book in the "Church of England" series. In this volume, we return to the original character towards the latter part of his life. It's always interesting to me that no matter how much you think you know, as life goes on, when you look back you realise you knew very little. T......more