53. Glamorous Powers

By Susan Howatch
Rated ★★★★★


This is the second book in the Starbridge series and one of my favorites. I love Jon who is rather aply described in a later book as “an old pirate.” This description fits him to a tee, especially Captain Jack Sparrow has come along and pretty much sold me on pirates.

Jon Darrow, an Anglican priest and abbot with psychic abilities, has a vision that he interprets as God's instruction to leave his religious order, a monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. . "In this witty, wise novel, the question 'Does God exist?' is always understood and, true to life, ambiguously answered,"