Penmarric — Susan Howatch

"I WAS TEN YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW THE INHERITANCE AND TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW JANNA ROSLYN, BUT MY REACTION TO BOTH WAS IDENTICAL. I WANTED THEM...."

Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. At the center of the novel is the great mansion called Penmarric. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange, and sensitive man, brings his bride Janna---the first act in a tempestuous drama that was to span three generations ...

Here is a novel in the grand manner, full of character and incident and utterly compelling in its sheer storytelling power.