She’s plain compared to her sister, but Edward is immediately smitten with her, and he quickly proposes marriage. When Edward travels to America, he meets his wife’s cousin Marguerite- a young girl still in her teens. The story begins with Edward de Salis, a widower, with a young son still living at home, one he has trouble understanding and keeping in line. I am not always a fan of this format, but it works beautifully here. Well before the current love affair with various first person POV’s, this novel allows each of the key characters a chance to tell the reader a part of the story. I didn’t get around to reading her books until decades after they were published, but I loved this style of family drama, which covers several generations of related characters, and is packed with life’s trials, triumphs and tragedies, and often includes scandals, mysteries, murders, and a touch of Gothic melodrama. Susan Howatch, at one time, was the queen of the family saga. This is a ‘doorstop’ tome written way back in 1974, but is now been formatted into digital form by Open Road Media. Cashelmara by Susan Howatch is a 2012 Open Road Media publication.
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