The Wheel Of Fortune
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Set against the sweeping backdrop of a Welsh estate across the twentieth century, The Wheel of Fortune is Susan Howatch's monumental saga that chronicles the intertwined destinies of the Godwin family, whose lives are shaped and reshaped by ambition, passion, loss, and the cruel turning of fate. Through five decades and multiple generations, Howatch constructs a rich tapestry of characters, each bound to Oxmoon — their ancestral home — in ways that illuminate the timeless tensions between desire and duty, freedom and inheritance. Howatch's narrative mastery lies in her ability to present the same house, the same land, and the same sins refracted through radically different perspectives, creating a portrait of a family cursed to repeat itself. Drawing comparisons to the grand dynastic novels of the Victorian era, The Wheel of Fortune stands as a towering achievement in twentieth-century British fiction — one that leaves the reader haunted by the question of whether any soul can ever truly escape the fate written for them by blood and history.
Author: Susan Howatch
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Set against the sweeping backdrop of a Welsh estate across the twentieth century, The Wheel of Fortune is Susan Howatch's monumental saga that chronicles the intertwined destinies of the Godwin family, whose lives are shaped and reshaped by ambition, passion, loss, and the cruel turning of fate. Through five decades and multiple generations, Howatch constructs a rich tapestry of characters, each bound to Oxmoon — their ancestral home — in ways that illuminate the timeless tensions between desire and duty, freedom and inheritance. Howatch's narrative mastery lies in her ability to present the same house, the same land, and the same sins refracted through radically different perspectives, creating a portrait of a family cursed to repeat itself. Drawing comparisons to the grand dynastic novels of the Victorian era, The Wheel of Fortune stands as a towering achievement in twentieth-century British fiction — one that leaves the reader haunted by the question of whether any soul can ever truly escape the fate written for them by blood and history.