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Re-reading the entire series recently, I wondered if I would like 'Absolute Truths' as much, since I knew what was coming.
I did.
It's a brilliant final novel in the Starbridge series.
It's told from the point of view of Charles Ashworth, who narrated the first book (Glittering Images) when he was a young man. In this story, however, he's much older, and is now an eminent Bishop in Starbridge.
Things start to go wrong for Charles, and events move rapidly towards a crisis point before he begins to find the way forward again.
I thought this novel was very cleverly plotted, drawing together threads from all the other books in the series, but still complete in itself. It feels like a real ending, too. Once again, I had no sense of anti-climax, or that the author had cheated. It was wonderful.
Highly recommended.
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