Scandalous Risks

Jacket Description/Flap: In the overheated 1960s in the English town of Starbridge, young Venetia Flaxton edges closer to a love affair with Neville Aysgarth, who is Dean of the Cathedral and old enough to be her father. His hidden emotional past and her moral conflict in the present lead them deeper and deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. Publisher Marketing: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral--a man old enough to be her father--his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.--Entertainment Weekly. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 11/01/1991 (EAN 9780449219829, Mass Market Paperbound)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 385 (EAN 9780449219829, Mass Market Paperbound)

Publishers Weekly 09/21/1990 (EAN 9780394588865, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 468 (EAN 9780394588865, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Howatch, Susan Susan Howatch (b. 1940) is a British novelist who has penned bestselling mysteries, family sagas, and other novels. Howatch was born in Surrey, England. She began writing as a teen and published her first book when she moved to the United States in 1964. Howatch found global success first with her five sagas and then with her novels about the Church of England in the twentieth century. She has now returned to live in Surrey.