Susan Howatch
Paperback | Pages: 704 pages Rating: 4.09 | 5496 Users | 256 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Penmarric ISBN13 9780449206225 |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. At the center of the novel is the great mansion called Penmarric. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange, and sensitive man, brings his bride Janna--the first act in a tempestuous drama that was to span three generations....Details Regarding Books Penmarric
| Title | : | Penmarric |
| Author | : | Susan Howatch |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 704 pages |
| Published | : | July 12th 1984 by Fawcett (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance |
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I fell in love with Penmarric years ago, when I was still at school, from the very first sentences.I was ten years old when I first saw Penmarric and twenty years old when I first saw Janna Roslyn, but my reaction to both was identical.I had to read on, and I was gripped from start to finish. I read every other book by Susan Howatch I could find. I liked some more than others, but all have something to recommend them. But my favourites were the three big books that reset stories from mediaevalOwn.I enjoyed reading this a lot. The writing is really excellent and draws the reader through the story. The motivations of the characters, the relationships between the characters, the voices of the characters are all so well done. Her characters, too, do not remain static but mature, grow, and change and their voices reflect this. Sympathies with one character narrator become antipathies with the next. Howatch teaches us how to consider the perspective of those we love ... and those we hate.
Drama-filled family stuff. It was entertaining for sure...but kinda depressing! I wish she had added just a few more wholesome, redeeming characters to get me through all the realistic, selfish characters. :) Each chapter was from a different character's perspective, and that was intriguing. It also reminded me of an Isabel Allende book I've read...similar family saga issues.
I really, really wanted to like this book. A friend recommended Howatch to me and I read the first 2 books in her Church of England series. Despite a tendency to not have any good, strong female characters, I loved them, and I'm not even particlarly religious. So, when I found out that she had a series of books based on the Plantagenets (my favorite historical family), I immediately hunted them down. What a disappoinment this first one was. There was not a single character I cared for. They were
In the late 1800s, Mark inherits the family manor, Penmarric, in Cornwall, England. He and Jana fall in love and he asks her to marry him but she is reluctant since she is several years older. As she feared, after marriage and seven children, they drift apart when Janna finds out that Mark has another household with his mistress and two illegitimate children. The marriage spirals downward and it is a vicious tug of war from then on. However, Mark and Jana are only the supporting cast of
I went back into the time machine for this historical fiction read which was published in 1971. I had read about Susan Howatch in Michael Korda's memoir, Another Life. He said this of her, "It is a frequently stated basic belief of book publishing that somewhere in the country at any given moment some unknown woman is writing a major best-seller (usually referred to as the 'the next Gone with the Wind') at her kitchen table while looking after her baby, but this was the first time I had
I am giving this 4 stars because it was so clever and took so much research to write it, but I really did not enjoy the reading experience. The story is set around mid 1800's to 1940 and it is based on the real couple of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine which is mid 1100s to say 1300. Their children are called the Devil's Brood which may be indicator of my problem. So everyone in the novel is a sad or horrible person, because of they all just hate each other. This is the ultimate dysfunctional
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