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Scandalous Risks : A Novel
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Scandalous Risks : A Novel Mass market paperbound - 1991

by Howatch, Susan

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As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral--a man old enough to be her father--his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. "Passionate".--Entertainment Weekly.

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  • Title Scandalous Risks : A Novel
  • Author Howatch, Susan
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 482
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House Publishing Group, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1991-10-21
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2340857-75
  • ISBN 9780449219829 / 0449219828
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.93 x 5.06 x 1.19 in (20.14 x 12.85 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the jacket flap

In the overheated 1960s in the English town of Starbridge, young Venetia Flaxton edges closer to a love affair with Neville Aysgarth, who is Dean of the Cathedral and old enough to be her father. His hidden emotional past and her moral conflict in the present lead them deeper and deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul.

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  • Publishers Weekly, 11/01/1991, Page 0

About the author

Susan Howatch was born in Surrey. After getting a degree in law, she emigrated to America, where she married, had a daughter, and embarked on a career as a writer. When she eventually left the United States, she lived in the Republic of Ireland for four years before returning to England. She spent time in Salisbury--which was the inspiration for her Starbridge sequence of novels--and now lives in London.

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