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The Wheel of Fortune  
Author: Susan Howatch
ISBN: 0449206246
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Oxmoon, the rambling old mansion on a sprawling estate in Wales, has been for generations, the dream, the downfall, and the destiny of the wealthy Godwin family. Discover how these extraordinary people were caught on life's wheel of fortune, how the family legacy of madness, murder, and doomed romance, begun with 19th century Gwyneth Godwin's scandalous affair with sheep farmer Owen Bryn-Davis, pursue all of the Godwins who live and die for the memories and the beauty of Oxmoon.
"Emotion-packed."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The MOST marvelous book imaginable."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES



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Oxmoon, the rambling old mansion on a sprawling estate in Wales, has been for generations, the dream, the downfall, and the destiny of the wealthy Godwin family. Discover how these extraordinary people were caught on life's wheel of fortune, how the family legacy of madness, murder, and doomed romance, begun with 19th century Gwyneth Godwin's scandalous affair with sheep farmer Owen Bryn-Davis, pursue all of the Godwins who live and die for the memories and the beauty of Oxmoon.
"Emotion-packed."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The MOST marvelous book imaginable."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES




The Wheel of Fortune

ANNOTATION

In wheel of fortune we become entangled in the fate of the Godwin family -- a family of wealth and priviledge that falls from glory to despair.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Oxmoon, the rambling old mansion on a sprawling estate in Wales, has been for generations, the dream, the downfall, and the destiny of the wealthy Godwin family. Discover how these extraordinary people were caught on life's wheel of fortune, how the family legacy of madness, murder, and doomed romance, begun with 19th century Gwyneth Godwin's scandalous affair with sheep farmer Owen Bryn-Davis, pursue all of the Godwins who live and die for the memories and the beauty of Oxmoon.
"Emotion-packed."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"The MOST marvelous book imaginable."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES


     



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