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In Glittering Images Susan Howatch unvciled the ele-

gant, complcx, dcceptivc world bchmd the dazzling

facadc of a great English cathedral...in ; ~ amorous

Powers she told the remarkable story of a clergyman

whose psychic powcrs werc both a magnificent gift

anti a dangerous affliction.., and now, with Ultimate

Prizes, she gives us the third and most enthrall-

ing book yct in her extraordinary new sequence

of novels.

The narrator is Neville Aysgarth: witty, intelli-

gent, powcrfully ambitious. Drivcn by mcmories of

his impoverished childhood, a drive tcmpercd by

his ardcnt faith, he has learned to seek worldly suc-

cess inits more subtle forms. And, by his forty-first

year--as the novel opens, in 1942 --he has captured

many of life s prizes: the "perfect" wile, the "per-

fect" family and the "perfect" future in his beloved

Chnrch of England. Already an archdeacon (a rank

usually held by mcn ten or twenty years his senior)

and privilegcd aide to the Bishop of Starbridgc,

Aysgarth is sure to attain a great place in the

Church s hicrarchy.

But he has not anticipatcd thc effect on his

picture-pcrfect world of a woman like Dido Tallent.

This former dcb of the year, this darling of the soci-

ety gossip columists, movcs into his ficld of vision

as a fellow gucst at one of the Bishop s wartime din-

nor parties. Dresscd in her simple Navy uniform,

she nonethcless appears to Aysgarth "a diamond,

glittering wickedly among a prim collection of

pearls) When she asks him to bccomc her spiritual

adviscr, he constructs a masterfully rational reason

why hc should agrce ("Who was I to regard her with

such un-Christian cynicism because she had spcnt

too many ycars as a mindlcss society girl?...Jesus

would ncver have walked past her with his nose in

the air, and since I was onc of his followers neither

should 1"). But it only masks his true motive: Dido,

"so clevcr, so stimulating, so attractive, so rich, so

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