Labels and appearances are temporary, while a person's essence is eternal.

Her stories and characters give assurance that life, especially its challenges, has a positive purpose and meaning. I listened to what I wanted from a work called 'Absolute Truths'-I who am desperately conservative in Christianity and most things. Howatch presents paradoxes and illusions in an accessible way. While there is some comfort in reading about good people giving in to temptation, the exaggerated characters and contrived plots become tiresome, especially when everybody and every event are intellectualized in order to explain life's truths, or even worse, when clever, erudite pontificating 'resolves' the conflict.Ī strength of the series is that Ms. With the series completed, the insightful reader will assess its weaknesses and strengths. He, along with another healer, Hall, offers forgiveness as the bridge between chaos and order, fragmentation and creation, despair and redemption. This time, Jon does more listening and less analyzing. In the midst of all this turmoil, Ashworth both seeks and avoids his spiritual 'trainer,' Jon Darrow. While living in a flat overlooking Salisbury Cathedral and trying to hold my divided self together, she found herself inspired by the beauty of the cathedral. When Michael is forced to admit his own guilt in a lover's suicide, he realizes he needs the wisdom and love of his father but has a hard time asking him for it. : Absolute Truths (Starbridge) (9780449225554) by Howatch, Susan and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.

His biological son, Michael, has been estranged from him for may reasons.

Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch