Cashelmara, Susan Howatch
Cashelmara, Susan Howatch
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Cashelmara

Author: Susan Howatch

Narrator: Gary Furlong, Carly Robins

Unabridged: 27 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/05/2020

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict.

When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century Ireland—a country racked by poverty and famine—his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelmara follows the fortunes of three generations as they struggle to survive both the tragedies of history and their own chaotic lives.

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 Greta on March 07, 2023

An epic family drama set in the mid-through late 19th century in Ireland. Edward, a “proper English Lord”, marries young Marguerite after his first wife dies- much to the chagrin of his oldest daughters. His son from his first marriage, Patrick, is his heir. Patrick marries Marguerite’s young cousin......more

Goodreads review by K.L. on November 25, 2023

I first read Cashelmara when I was about eleven years old and have since probably read it at least once a year! It os one book that I will always keep on my shelf alongside Trade Winds (M.M. Kaye) and Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett). Cashelmara traces the loves, lies and intrigues of a late 19th a......more

Goodreads review by Ana on June 20, 2023

This is not a review. It’s a simple question to everyone who’s read Cashelmara: Although most of the characters are pretty complex, horrible humans, Maxwell Drummond is universally accepted as the villain of the piece. WHY? Here’s a list of things Drummond did: 1. Killed a couple of horrible men, one o......more

Goodreads review by Mela on November 04, 2022

I felt much better now that I could see the situation so clearly in black and white I wish... Or not... The truth and the most exquisite aspect of the book was that you can't decide what to think about characters and their decisions. It was disturbing because who doesn't prefer stability. The ide......more