The Wonder Worker | The Wonder Worker (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Fiction for the Thinking Christian | The Wonder Worker (Ballantine Reader's Circle) | Susan Howatch

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	• The Wonder Worker (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Susan Howatch Ballantine Books, 1998 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A great read

I enjoyed this novel. The story unfolded nicely, with changes in narrator, from one character to the next. As you read about the characters from the point of view of others chapter after chapter, you see that you never get the whole story. Each character is like an onion, revealing layer upon layer.

It was the first Howatch novel I've read, and I'll be reading more in the future.

The Wonder Worker

I loved "Cashelmara" and "Penmarric." I didn't know Susan Howatch had written anything after that other than the church stories which I did not enjoy. I'm so glad I looked her up again. Her earlier works were so much better. Of course that's MHO.

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Fiction for the Thinking Christian

Most of the action in this novel occurs in a healing center, where two priests, a physician, social worker, counselor and several volunteers work. This is an unusual and intriguing setting.

Howatch, through the crises of the various characters, is able to portray the connection between body and soul and explores the deeper meaning of healing. Healing is almost always a process.

I think that the average middle-aged person can relate to at least a couple of the struggles of these characters. So reading this book is therapeutic as well if you use it as a tool for self-examination.

Howatch explores the psychological dimension of these crises in addition to the spiritual. Sometimes the psychobabble gets tiring but overall I appreciated this perspective. It's good to think beyond the usual Christian terminology.

If you enjoyed the Starbridge Series this book should not be a disappointment.

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Young, lonely, and insecure, Alice Fletcher is on the verge of emotional collapse when she stumbles into St. Benet's Church to dodge the London drizzle. There, she witnesses a group of gifted healers led by the charismatic Nicholas Darrow. Gaining refuge at last, Alice is drawn--inexorably, seductively--into the complex network of relationships at St. Benet's healing center--as she falls immediately, dangerously, in love with Darrow himself.

Yet Darrow and his cutting-edge clergy are not all what they seem. And while Nicholas's dazzling powers now threaten to ruin all he attempts to save--including his own disturbed marriage--Alice's devotion to him deepens. Then a devastating tragedy transports her to the shocking center of truth. Yet fueled by her love for Nicholas and a boldly emerging intuition, she will hold together the lives spinning wildly out of control--as she herself is transformed forever.

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