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"Fascinating...convincing...believable." NEWSDAY The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends... read more

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THE VISION BEGAN AT A QUARTER TO SIX; AROUND ME THE ROOM was suffused with light, not the pellucid light of a fine midsummer morning but the dim light of a wet dawn in May.

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  1. Susan Howatch (Author)
 

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