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| Original Title: | Past Caring |
| ISBN: | 055213144X (ISBN13: 9780552131445) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Robert Goddard
Paperback | Pages: 528 pages Rating: 4.01 | 1972 Users | 179 Reviews
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Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly and coldly reject him? Why, sixty-seven years later, should people go to such lengths - even as far as murder - to prevent the truth from being revealed? Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected and unemployed, leaps at the chance to get to the island of Madeira and begin the hunt for a solution to the intriguing secret of Edwin Strafford's fall from grace. However, his seeming good fortune turns to nightmare as his investigation triggers a bizarre and violent train of events which remorselessly entangles him and those who believed they had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for...
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| Title | : | Past Caring |
| Author | : | Robert Goddard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | July 17th 1987 by Corgi (first published 1986) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime |
Rating Containing Books Past Caring
Ratings: 4.01 From 1972 Users | 179 ReviewsPiece Containing Books Past Caring
Not a patch on In Pale Battalions, the only other book by Goddard I have read. An unlikeable narrator, a very complex plot, a femme fatale who is ludicrously brilliant and beautiful and sexy and bad news for our narrator. It was Goddards first book and has some good things in it in terms of the plot, but some of the characters are more than a little unbelievable. Oh, and theres an embarrassingly bad sex scene too.Mildly entertaining as holiday reading.Goddard's first novel is the very best I've read of him so far. An out of work historian is given an assignment to look into the life of a 1910 british politician turned governor of Madeira. The employer is a south African who bought the governors mansion and stumbled upon his diary. A seemingly past-time interest soon proves to be of close personal interest to everybody involved and the tale that unravels are one of deceit and even murder, echoing into present time.
This was my first Robert Goddard novel but it won't be my last.This book tells two stories; one set in the present day and another set about seventy five years earlier. The book is structured so that the present-day protagonist, a historian, is researching the story of the 'way back when' protagonist. I've come across this kind of structure before and, when it's done well, it's a really entertaining way of unfolding and interweaving two related tales. Goddard does it well.The thing I loved the
This 1986 Booker prize-nominated novel is a rewarding reading experience. Its Goddards first published novel, which makes the Booker feat even more impressive. The expert suspense-manipulation skills of a Daphne du Maurier romance meets a John le Carre thriller is how the New York Times reviewer put it.Martin Radford is the narrator and an unlikely private detective, although, consistent with the genres requirements, he is flawed. Hes an unemployed history graduate so when a university friend
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This novel tells two stories, firstly that of an early 20th century British cabinet minister, Edwin Strafford, who suddenly and mysteriously loses his job and his fiance without a clue as to why this is happening to him. His career is ruined and he ends up a minor consular official in Madeira. It is also about a young historian Martin Radford, divorced and unemployed and visiting a friend in Madeira in the 1970s. He is hired to investigate the story of Edwin Strafford, starting with a recenty
Would have been even better without quite so many "if I'd only known"s.
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