Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch (Van Zale #2) (Hardcover)

“‘Soon after my return in that troubled spring of 1949’, said Sam Keller, ‘my boss asked if I would marry his daughter. It was, as I at once realised, a unique occasion. I had never before been proposed to by the father of a would-be bride without either her knowledge or her consent.’
Not only the occasion was unique. So were Sam’s boss. Cornelius V an Zale, and his tempestuous daughter, Vicky. No one could have looked more harmless than Cornelius and no one could have been more adept at going straight for the iugular vein.
The ramifications of the Van Zale family are vast. Here Susan Howatch shows us, through six pairs of eyes, the loves, ambitions, struggles and, most of all, the strains of guilt which unite and divide them.
In the centre of all the intrigues is the glittering Vicky. All her life has been dominated by Cornelius. As schoolgirl, bride and young mother, as mistress and divorcée, she has been either escaping from her father’s influence or allowing herself to be cocooned in it. Finally the relationship is resolved; natural justice, terrible in its merciless purity, is done.”

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