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Cashelmara (1974)

por Susan Howatch

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The New York Times-bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict.   When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century Ireland--a country racked by poverty and famine--his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelmara follows the fortunes of three generations as they struggle to survive both the tragedies of history and their own chaotic lives.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.… (mais)
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    The Three Edwards por Thomas B. Costain (bjappleg8)
    bjappleg8: Cashelmara is a fictionalized retelling of the same Plantagenet kings that Costain details. Both works are gripping and bring their subjects to vivid life.
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Interesting story but some of the plot twists were too unbelievable. Still an interesting bit of historical fiction mostly in Ireland during turbulent and heartbreaking times. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
692 pages of upperclass Brits behaving badly in Ireland. Not worth the time. ( )
  Gifford_MacShane | Mar 30, 2023 |
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  gutierrezmonge | Oct 18, 2022 |
Cashelmara is Susan Howatch’s retelling of the lives of Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III of England. She sets her tale primarily at Cashelmara, an estate in Ireland, beginning in 1859, with Edward’s second marriage to his first wife’s cousin, Marguerite. The characters are wonderfully real and complicated, grabbing your attention and holding it to the end, and the story progresses so smoothly that it is like watching a movie.

Howatch uses a device that has become common, but isn’t always my favorite, a passing of the story from one point of view to another. She does it magnificently. We begin with Edward’s view, pass to Marguerite’s (Margaret), then to Patrick (Edward II) the son of Edward from his first marriage. Patrick marries Marguerite’s niece, Sarah (Isabella), and the next voice is hers. I was swept entirely into her story and found the events there fascinating. The fifth voice belongs to Maxwell Drummond (Roger Mortimer), and I wondered why this historical figure has been exploited so little because he is never clearly hero or villain but a blend of the two. No need for invention with such a character springing right off the pages of history. And, the last voice belongs to Ned (Edward III), son of Patrick and Sarah, who is left with the chaos created by his father’s debauchery and his mother’s defection and has to decide how to bring some dignity and morality back to life at Cashelmara.

I am always delighted with a good historical novel. Good ones, well-researched and accurate are difficult to produce and a joy to read. Susan Howatch goes one step further in resettling her characters in another time and place, and yet still being true to what history tells us about them and their relationships to one another. I know of no other writer who does this as well as she does. She always makes me want to know more about the real people behind her fictional ones and I find myself reading histories and researching online for tidbits of information. It is nice when a writer can awaken that kind of curiosity.

There is one more book by Howatch about the Plantagenets that I will try to get to before the end of the year. Hope it is as well-crafted and as much fun as this one was.
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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
I was surprised by the change in narrators throughout the book, but I loved the different point of views it offered over time. There was amazing growth in the characters and so many fascinating coming of age stories are told. I really enjoyed it and highly recommend if you like historical family sagas. ( )
  SheriRichey | Oct 29, 2021 |
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There were two subjects I never discussed: my dead wife and Cashelmara. So when I first met a woman with whom I could discuss both subjects with ease, it was hardly surprising that I should once again flirt with the idea of marriage.
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The New York Times-bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict.   When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century Ireland--a country racked by poverty and famine--his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelmara follows the fortunes of three generations as they struggle to survive both the tragedies of history and their own chaotic lives.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.

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