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Cashelmara

Susan Howatch

1974672 pagesabout 10–15 hours
1974
first published
  • 1974Simon and Schuster · 702 pages · ENGISBN 9780671217365
  • 1974Hamilton · 705 pages · ENGISBN 9780241890455
  • 1976Pan Books · 702 pages · ENGISBN 9780330244060
  • 1988Fawcett Crest · 672 pages · ENGISBN 9780449206232
  • 1989Penguin Books · 704 pagesISBN 9780140112139
  • 1982Fawcett · ENGISBN 9780449241073
  • 2004Time Warner Paperbacks · 720 pagesISBN 9780751535358
  • 2001GoldmannISBN 9783442355228

There were two subjects which lonely widower Edward de Salis never discussed: his dead wife and his family home in Ireland, 'matchless Cashelmara'. So when he meets Marguerite, a bright young American with whom he can talk freely about both, he is able to love again and takes her back to Ireland as his wife. But Marguerite soon discovers that married life is not what she expected, and that she has married into a troubled family bitterly divided by love and hatred. Cashelmara becomes the curse of three generations as they play out their fates in a spellbinding drama, which moves inexorably towards murder and retribution.

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