The Wheel of Fortune Author:Susan Howatch At its center is Oxmoon, the family manor of the Godwins, which for four generations, from the glittering years before the First World War to the present time, obsesses and haunts every member of the family, turning brother against brother, son against father, its changing fortunes inexorably linked to theirs, its decline mirroring the family's ... more »descent from Edwardian prosperity and social position to the straitened circumstances of middle-class life.« less