Mystical Paths, Susan Howatch
Mystical Paths, Susan Howatch
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Mystical Paths

Author: Susan Howatch

Narrator: Roe Kendall

Unabridged: 22 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2009


Synopsis

Nicholas Darrow, a strongwilled and independent young man, has grown up under the shadow of the Church of England and the loving but watchful eye of his father, an Anglican priest. Like his father, he too has both a gift and a burden in the form of psychic abilities. Although his father warns him to nurture his special powers with care, Nicholas can see no harm in the occasional dazzling psychic flourishuntil one results in a friends attempted suicide. Now, staggering under the weight of remorse, horrified by the dangerous edge of his powers, Nicholas moves toward the brink of emotional collapse. When a terrifying vision suggests to him that he might literally be possessed, he must at last begin to face the truth of his pastand, in particular, of his relationship with his fatherto find the one path that may lead him out of the seemingly impenetrable darkness.

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 KOMET

"MYSTICAL PATHS" --- the 5th novel (of 6) in the "Church of England Series" centered on the Church of England in the 20th century --- introduces the reader to Nicholas Darrow, the son of teacher/healer, spiritual advisor, psychic and ex-Fordite monk Jon Darrow, who figures both prominently and perip......more

1968, London. The height of sexual freedom. Nicholas Darrow, a young man on the verge of being ordained, struggles with his own sexuality and the imminent death of his sickly father in the face of entering the church. As a distraction, he becomes obsessed with the disappearance and death of an old f......more