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This was the first one I read in the series (yes, out of order, of course.) The story gave me new tools to approach God. Howatch makes mysticism practical, and approachable. (

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Starbridge (book 2)

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Grantchester, Starmouth

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The vision began at a quarter to six; around me the room was suffused with light, not the pellucid light of a fine midsummer morning but the dim light of a wet dawn in May.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394571452, Hardcover)

"Fascinating...convincing...believable."
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The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him into the labyrinth of his past to pluck out the buried truth beneath the deceptions he has been living through.

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