Question of Integrity Hb [Hardcover]

Susan Howatch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 1997

The inhabitants of a small community are interlinked by the healer at its heart, Nick Darrow. There is Alice, the romantic but also an outcast; Lewis the priest, an irascible traditionalist; Francie, who has a desire to be loved; and Stacy, a young trainee looking for faith and direction.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 624 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown (October 23, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316641375
• ISBN-13: 978-0316641371
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,668,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Question of Ontegrity, June 13, 2001

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"boggya" (Niceville, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Question of Integrity (Paperback)

A QUESTION OF INTEGRITY is the English title for the book that is titled THE WONDER WORKER. In the United States. I bought my copy in Oxford England and didn't know until I started to read THE WONDER WORKER that they were one and the same. By either title it is a very good read.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading for Lovers of the Starbridge Series, February 6, 2008

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Roger D. Williams (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Question of Integrity (Paperback)

I encountered my first book written by Susan Hawatch on a business trip to the United Kingdom... it had been left in my hotel room. "Glittering Images" amazed me by taking religious faith seriously, and depicting evil and good, moral issues and human frailty in a way I found totally credible. It may have helped that my own faith as an Anglican is the one depicted in her novels.

I was astonished to find that this novel, which follows on from the earlier six-volume series, had no readers' reviews, and am encouraged to write my very first.

The use of Alice, a young woman with a very poor opinion of herself despite being a Cordon Bleu cook, to give us first-person insights into the healing ministry that originated in the Starbridge series, is very effective. A refreshingly new look at some familiar characters.

Once again the moral issues of our times are confronted, with an understanding of and sympathy for those grappling with them that is very appealing, and all too rare among those who write from a position of commitment to traditional Christian faith.

Susan Hawatch is in the grand tradition of Anglican tolerance, but will have none of it for cant and bigotism, nor for deliberate evil.

But this is not just a morality play, it's a love story. And a very engaging one. The heroine is delightful, and the heroes are all too credibly flawed. And despite the fact that those familiar with the Starbridge series will have an advantage in approaching this book, recognising characters already long familiar, I do believe it will be a good entry point for those new to Susan Howatch. You may feel, as I do, that her depiction of women helps you to understand their thinking. I find her description of male thought processes so true to my own experience that I am prepared to accept her depiction of female psychology. I am reminded of Iris Murdoch's unnerving ability to penetrate the opposite sex's psyche.

I have made a point of reading all her novels, including the early historical novels written before her personal commitment to the Christian faith, and the talents were all clear to see, although I believe they reach their finest flowering in the books that followed it.

I warmly recommend this book and I wish there were more than five stars to award it.

3.0 out of 5 stars A little disappointing, March 10, 2011

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Lois W. Roark - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Question of Integrity Hb (Hardcover)

Susan Howatch is one of my favorite authors. Her all time greats, my favorties, are "Cashelmara" and "Penmarric". I read all of the Church of England series, too, and this book follows one of their characters, Nick Darrow. The books with him as the central figure are not my favorites. He is not a really likeable character as was his father. Once I was into the book I had to finish it but at the end I did not feel the redemption of the character as I usually feel with her novels. It left me "flat". After "Mystical Paths", probably my least favorite. I am reading "Wheel of Fortune" now and it promises to be a long and good read. Please note that this novel is her "The Wonder Worker" under the British title, "Question of Integrity", and I had bought both, which was a waste of money.