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Written by Susan Howatch - Audio book performed by Robert Whitfield - Unabridged Fiction - 15 LIBRARY EDITION CASSETTES - 20.5 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audio (May 2005)

NOTE: LIBRARY EDITIONS are packaged in a sturdy, durable outer vinyl case that stands up to years of repeated use designed for library and rental circulation. Albums are shelvable, space-efficient, with at-a-glance spine titles.

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, no-nonsense bishop. Outside the Church, he is known as “Anti-Sex Ashworth.”

Now, a profound crisis of Ashworth’s faith begins unexpectedly and with brutal force when his beloved wife dies. Bereavement overwhelming his spiritual equilibrium, his strict morality is quickly revealed to him to be nothing more than a façade. Behind it is a maze of blinding grief and denial, of hypocrisy and estrangement from his sons, his colleagues, his parishioners. 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 truths—both good and bad—that have shaped his past and that may be the only keys to his future.