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Past Caring

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1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career, removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves, and for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly and coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness.

Seventy years later, historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious bene...more

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Published September 30th 2010 by Corgi (first published 1986)

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Dec 11, 2008 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I stopped reading another book mid-stream because I was so excited when I got this one. I read a list of books recommended by some authors and Stephen King recommended this author so highly, it reminded me of me when I get excited about an author or book. So far I am in love with this book - it's a great mystery with several layers of mystery. I'm loving it! We'll see how it ends...
Great book!!!!

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Jul 23, 2011 Biogeek rated it 5 of 5 stars

Thoroughly enjoyable read...and perfect for a holiday. A book that delivers on all the promises made by the blurbs at the back, this is indeed a compelling novel about betrayal, jealousy, lies and other great ingredients. While much of the book uses turn-of-the-last century British politics as a background, this does not make the book any less interesting. Goddard manages to weave in historical events such as the Suffragette movement and the Boer War seamlessly into his plot. Great twists and un...more

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Oct 08, 2010 Josh rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Read this one a long time ago and just remembered it. I loved this one. I went on to read other Robert Goddard books. They're kind of all the same in the way all Hitchcock movies are the same, which is to to say that they're all the same, and why shouldn't they be? They're great and fun. Goddard writes about men with pasts that come back to haunt them. I can't say I remember the story of this one well other than some scenes on the island of Madeira, layers of the past being revealed one by one.....more

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Oct 12, 2012 Jane rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found this book took a long time to get into with the scene setting and the writing style hard going. I was tempted to abandon but as a book group read this was not an option. I was pleased I finished the book even though for me, it certainly wasn't a great read. It became predictable, it was obvious the beautiful Eve was a temptress up to no good and our main character Martin was weak and ineffective. The only likeable character in the book turned out to be Strafford's intended. The 'baddies...more

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May 20, 2011 Melaszka rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm hovering between a 3 and a 4 on this.

I love Goddard's later books and this shares some good things with them: it's a gripping page-turner, written with intelligence and extensive background knowledge, while never getting above itself or claiming to be more than the clever piece of escapism it is. I liked the way that he paralleled many of the issues and themes of the Edwardian part of the story in the present day: e.g. the Suffragette movement was juxtaposed with a battle-of-the-sexes storyl...more I'm hovering between a 3 and a 4 on this.

I love Goddard's later books and this shares some good things with them: it's a gripping page-turner, written with intelligence and extensive background knowledge, while never getting above itself or claiming to be more than the clever piece of escapism it is. I liked the way that he paralleled many of the issues and themes of the Edwardian part of the story in the present day: e.g. the Suffragette movement was juxtaposed with a battle-of-the-sexes storyline in Martin's life, the idea of betrayal in male friendship between Strafford and Couch was echoed in the relationship between Martin and Alec.

However, there were also a number of things that I didn't like. Unusually for Goddard, most of the "surprise" twists were infinitely predictable. I felt that elements of the action and language in the Edwardian era were anachronistic (I find it hard to imagine that an upper-middle class man of that era would say things like "What's the problem?" or refer to his "fiancee"). The book felt about 100 pages too long. There was some cardboard characterisation, with villainous toffs who wouldn't have looked out of place tying a girl to a railway line while cackling demonically through their pantomime moustaches and one character who came across as an adolescent boy's fantasy. Also, presumably this wasn't Goddard's fault, but my edition was appallingly typeset, giving the impression that a handwritten draft had been computer scanned and nobody had bothered to proofread it afterwards, as we had "dimrer" for "dinner", "fmd" for "find" and similar howlers on virtually every other page.

Most of all, I found his take on women's rights a bit disturbing. For a book which dealt with women's struggle for power, it was surprisingly malecentric. Yes, there were strong, intelligent female characters, but they were both viewed through the eyes of blokes who fancied them, leaving the impression that it is possible for women to be clever and sassy and to be taken seriously by men, but only if they're also sexy. Indeed, there was far too much emphasis for my liking on the advisability of women using their feminine wiles to get what they want - as one of the characters puts it, "The Suffragettes should have fluttered their eyelashes instead of their banners" - again seemingly implying that women who're not sexy shouldn't have any rights. I'm actually surprised that the narrative seemed in favour of women's suffrage, as Goddard's apparent views seemed only a step away from "Why do women need the vote? They can always use their feminine wiles to get their husbands to vote the way they want."

I do take the point which the novel also makes - that in sexual relationships, women aren't always the innocent victim and men the evil seducer. But I think even that was handled a bit cack-handedly, with one of the main examples of the manipulative seductress not given a voice at all and another written so much from the perspective of her male admirer (and, in my opinion, so implausibly).

Still, it was a very satisfying read, which conveyed quite a lot about what can be quite a dry period in English political history and made it seem interesting, without getting too teacherish.(less)

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Mar 26, 2011 Mieneke rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, crime

Past Caring is my third and final book in the Great Transworld Crime Caper. The previous two books were easy picks, because I knew when I saw the subjects I definitely wanted to read those. The last book though was a tough choice, mostly because there were some amazing sounding books to choose from. In the end I picked Robert Goddard's book because it had a historical slant to it. And it turned out to be a good choice. The book is a fat novel, clocking in at 623 pages, but I had a hard time putt...more Past Caring is my third and final book in the Great Transworld Crime Caper. The previous two books were easy picks, because I knew when I saw the subjects I definitely wanted to read those. The last book though was a tough choice, mostly because there were some amazing sounding books to choose from. In the end I picked Robert Goddard's book because it had a historical slant to it. And it turned out to be a good choice. The book is a fat novel, clocking in at 623 pages, but I had a hard time putting the novel down and letting go of the story, when I had to do other stuff.

The setting and concept are interesting. I always love a story within a story and with Stafford's Memoir we get exactly that. The parts of the book set in 1910, even though they do not concern real people, ring true and conjured Edwardian London in all of its tumultuous glory. For me, Martin's part of the story read a little historical as well, as it's set two years before I was born. It was funny to read about a world where not only did not everyone have a mobile phone, but not everyone had a land line either. The juxtaposition between the contemporary feel of the narrative and those reminders that this was 1977 instead of 2007, never once truly jarred me out the story, it is more a testament to Mr Goddard's wonderful writing.

Martin is the ultimate flawed protagonist. He has a scandal in his past, a weakness for alcohol, and is more inclined to take the easiest or most pleasurable path than doing what is right. He's a man adrift in the world and he seems not totally convinced he should be looking for an anchor. Despite all this, he is sympathetic and he seems redeemable, which in the end, in a way, he is. Martin finds an anchor in the memoir of Edwin Stafford, a man his total opposite: brave, courageous, honourable, ethical and choosing the hard way if it means doing what is right. Martin gets caught up by the Memoir's mystery and through his quest to solve it, Martin needs to confront the flaws in his own character and comes to take Edwin's goals as his own.

The novel is pervaded with a sense of unease. It's clear no one is what they seem to be and they all have hidden motives. This serves to keep the reader on her toes and kept me questioning most of the conclusions Martin draws about people. The one main character in the book that is exactly what he seems to be, is Edwin Stafford. Even his nephew Ambrose is more than the curmudgeonly drunk he seems when we meet him. The leading ladies in this book are one of its strengths; Elizabeth is awesome, such a strong and gentle woman, and Eve is such a delicious villain, living up to all the historical connotations of her name. Goddard's characters are well drawn and come to life, both the good and the bad; they all are coloured in shades of grey, only coming into full focus and shading at the end of the story. And even then, after I'd closed the covers, I found myself wondering about some of them.

Past Caring is a crime novel where the crime is not at the heart of the story, in my opinion. Yes, there is a mystery, a large one, which requires solving, but to me it was a tale about love, honour and whether sometimes keeping a secret is preferable to revealing the truth. The answer may surprise you, I know it surprised me. I've been very lucky, all the books I picked for my Crime Caper challenge were excellent and I truly enjoyed them, but unexpectedly this one is my favourite. Mr Goddard knows how to write an engrossing tale and I'm glad that there are plenty more for me to catch up on.

This book was sent to me for review as part of the Great Transworld Crime Caper.(less)

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Mar 11, 2011 Jenni rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: british-author

This is the second book I’ve read for the Great Transworld Crime Caper. As soon as I read the synopsis of the book I thought it sounded like my sort of book, within a few pages I knew I’d made a good choice.

The plot is split between the present (though that’s in the 1980s, back when the book was written) and the past, as historian Martin Radford tries to investigate what happened to Edwin Strafford back in the 1910s. Edwin’s story is told through his memoir, both plots are gripping and once they...more

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Jul 19, 2009 Tripp rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Once I find a writer I like, I tend to binge on them. I stop when I have had enough or when I realize I am about to exhaust the oeuvre. In the mid-90s I read all of Robertson Davies and was sad when I all I had left was personal letters and the like. I similarly tore through Patrick Robinson's and Dennis Lehane's crime novels and the Barset Chronicles by Anthony Trollope. Robert Goddard's body of work turned out to be too large to consume all at once. Already in the teens when I started him, I r...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Michele rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, mystery

The first three hundred pages of this book were absolutely riveting -- I could not put it down, this story of a out-of-work historian in the 1970s who stumbles upon an old, turn-of-the-century mystery involving a British cabinet member and his mysterious fall from grace. I suspect this first half was so riveting because it was the memoir of the cabinet member in question and his circumstances were fascinating. Alas, the second part of the book involves the contemporary historian solving the myst...more

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Feb 24, 2011 Tze-Wen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: crime-and-mystery, historical-fiction

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What appealed to me the most about Past Caring is the way it entwines two stories: Strafford’s memoir is told in its entirety, while in the here and now Martin Radford, our far-from-flawless protagonist searches for the answers that have painfully eluded Strafford in life. I immediately took to poor conscientious Edwin, so brutally condemned for crimes he appeared to have no knowledge of. Was this true though? Did he not tamper with the truth in...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Bryan Higgs rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, favorites

I came across a reference to this author in a review of Tess Gerritsen's "The Bone Garden", where the reviewer basically said that Gerritsen was good, "but no Robert Goddard". So, always on the lookout for a new (to me) and promising mystery author, I looked him up, and borrowed this book, his first, from the local town library.

I am impressed! The writing is very good -- perhaps a little on the old-fashioned side, but in the sections based on Edwardian England that was quite proper. I consider t...more

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Feb 21, 2010 Sandie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010-books, historical-fiction, thrillers-and-mystery, brit-lit

You too would reach the point where you were PAST CARING if the found that your perfect life had been wrenched from you; the love of your life had suddenly abandoned you and your once promising career was in tatters all for reasons unknown to you…….reasons that no one would explain but vehemently insisted were known to you.

Such is the fate of Edwin Strafford. Once a man with a promising political career as a British cabinet minister, contemporary and friend to the likes of Winston Churchill and...more

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Apr 22, 2009 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

I had never read anything by Robert Goddard before, but I certainly will try more of his books. In the blurb on the cover, it was compared to The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman (I didn't see the blurb until I had finished the book) and I have to agree, in that it has that same mysterious, convoluted plotting of Fowles's works. The protagonist is an admittedly weak, easily-led man, down on his luck, who is offered an assignment he simply can't refuse, to look up the "real" history of a l...more

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Dec 10, 2010 Belinda Turvey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Half way through this book I thought I was going to give it 5 stars but downgraded it to 3 upon completion. At first I couldn't put it down but by the end I wanted to finish it quickly and start another. Without revealing the plot, for me the character of Eve was no less than nerve-grating and believe the story would have fared better with a male, 'non love interest' counterpart with a twist. The Couchmans also seemed to get under my skin at times; very clichéd. Nevertheless, this is story-telli...more

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Mar 16, 2011 Barbara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I finally found a copy of this book when I was in NYC last week. It's really good so far!!! Now I know why Jim recommended it.:)

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Jul 18, 2012 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book had the most profound impact on me. I read it many years ago and there were elements to the story that reminded me of John Fowles' "The Magus" which is one of my all-time favorite books. Mr. Goddard is not only a gifted writer, but he has an understanding of human nature and human psychology which transcends that of the vast majority of fiction writers.

The title does not fit the novel and in fact, it detracts from the novel. I've no idea why he chose this rather trite title for such a...more

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Nov 16, 2011 Jeremy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Take the Suffragette movement and blend it with high power political stakes including Churchill, Asquith and the like and throw in the intended marriage of a cabinet minister of the time and a leading suffragette. Edwin Strafford plans to marry Elizabeth Latimer but one of them has to give up their political life to make it happen. Edwin chooses to resign but after he does this Elizabeth completely shuns him and the Prime Minister refuses to take him back.

Why is Edwin shunned so suddenly and why...more

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Jul 09, 2011 FittenTrim rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: top-shelf-best-books-ever

A few months ago, I raved about Goddard's In Pale Battalions, but in some ways, this book is even better. It gets off to a quicker start as the novel's desperate & flawed hero takes a job which (any reader can see) is a set-up sure to destroy his life. Goddard's books follow a formula where the past is always loaded with secrets and scandals which will haunt a flawed protagonist searching for the truth. While these books are so great, I should note that the endings are always more downbeat...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Bettie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: summer-2011, mystery-thriller, historical-fiction, edwardian, published-1986

Read by................... Paul Shelley
Abr/Unabr................ Unabridged
Total Runtime.......... approx 19 Hrs 40 Mins

blurb - Written in clear, resonant prose, Goddard's first novel, nominated for the Booker prize, is a poised telling of a complex tale. A fascinating "could this be true?" story within a story is reminiscent of Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time, while Thomas Hardy's tragic characters are deliberately echoed in the Edwardian British politician Edwin Strafford and the troubled his...more

Read by................... Paul Shelley
Abr/Unabr................ Unabridged
Total Runtime.......... approx 19 Hrs 40 Mins

blurb - Written in clear, resonant prose, Goddard's first novel, nominated for the Booker prize, is a poised telling of a complex tale. A fascinating "could this be true?" story within a story is reminiscent of Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time, while Thomas Hardy's tragic characters are deliberately echoed in the Edwardian British politician Edwin Strafford and the troubled historian Martin Radford, who has been chosen to research Strafford's tormented life. Radford finds a memoir that contains hints of a political and moral crime, past but not forgotten, so devastating that even in 1977 it reverberates through the corridors of power. As he reads the memoir, Radford eventually comes to regard the dead Home Secretary as a friend, even as his search uncovers corruption and murder. The novel's subtlety is reflected in the different meanings of its title, and the satisfying climax weaves together the strands of past and present. In one sense a historical thriller, and in another a romantic novel of a love affair gone disastrously wrong, this is, in any case, a wonderful read.
Paul Shelley's reading is sensitive and sets the tone for this tale of a life gone hideously wrong. Twenty-six years after Edwin Strafford's death, historian Martin Radford is challenged by a whimsical, wealthy, and elderly South African now living in Strafford's home in Madeira to find out why his life did not fulfill its promise. Radford learns that nothing is academic about the life and death of Strafford, Member of Parliament, British Consul in Madeira, and one-time colleague of Winston Churchill and Lloyd George. People are still protecting the secrets that Radford is seeking, and at least one of them is willing to murder to keep them. Shelley adjusts the pitch and inflection of his voice and the pacing of his words to portray a variety of characters: the eager, honest, self-confident young Strafford and the weary, cynical World War I veteran whom he becomes; the cold, evil villain; the charming seductress; and the bluff, good-natured Churchill.

The tone begins here with mañana meeting melodrama on Madeira.

Excellent - if you like the meaty ilk of Stone's Fall then the chances are you will like this. Goddard stands a chance of becoming a fav author if all his books are of this standard.

5*(less)

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Sep 14, 2011 Joe Stamber rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2011

My first RG book was "Sight Unseen", picked up on a whim in a supermarket and enjoyed. Recently I came upon 6 of his books in a 3 for £5 promotion in Morrisons... so obviously I had to buy all 6 for £10! I decided to start with RG's first novel, the one I'm reviewing now. Martin, the narrator/protaganist, turns out to be a pretty pathetic chap. Despite being well qualified and having both teacher and historian on his CV, he is naive, gullible and misses some pretty obvious clues. Knowing that RG...more My first RG book was "Sight Unseen", picked up on a whim in a supermarket and enjoyed. Recently I came upon 6 of his books in a 3 for £5 promotion in Morrisons... so obviously I had to buy all 6 for £10! I decided to start with RG's first novel, the one I'm reviewing now. Martin, the narrator/protaganist, turns out to be a pretty pathetic chap. Despite being well qualified and having both teacher and historian on his CV, he is naive, gullible and misses some pretty obvious clues. Knowing that RG is an excellent writer, I guess I should give him credit for creating a flawed, vulnerable character rather than putting it down to him fitting the character to the story while finding his feet. To be fair, Past Caring is played out by an eclectic cast of well drawn characters, so perhaps my observations about Martin, who after all is quite likeable, are mischievous and unfair.

The story can be described as a historical mystery, starting with Martin in the late 1970s as a bit of a scrounging layabout. He visits a friend on the island of Madeira where he meets a rich South African who occupies the former residence of Edwin Strafford, a Cabinet minister in the early 20th century. We jump back in time as Martin reads Strafford's secret memoirs, which provide few answers but throw up many questions. Before long, he is back in England to solve the mystery behind the memoirs.

The more Martin discovers, the further the mystery deepens, as theories are arrived at then discarded. The reader is drawn in and becomes desperate to know the answers, but RG cleverly prods Martin in the wrong direction and keeps us in suspense. The plot weaves rather than twists and turns, but even at this early stage in his career, RG knows how to spin a good yarn and I was enthralled throughout. Good job really, after I bought all those books of his! Anyone who enjoys a good English mystery, particularly with a bit of history thrown in, should love Past Caring - as long as you can cope with a protaganist who's a bit slow on the uptake.(less)

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Oct 10, 2011 Sharon Spiteri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was recommended by a friend and I got the audiobook and plunged in without even reading a blurb or a short review so I wasn't sure what to expect. About 100 pages in, I was a bit fed up, it was clearly of the 'historical crime' genre with emphasis on the historical and I knew so little about the politics of the early 20th century that I was losing interest. The book also felt densely written, with little dialogue, and the pace was lethargic. I'm glad to say I was wrong. I think it does need...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Alistair rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

so was i after struggling through to about page 300 . I just could not face picking the book up again and reading about an obscure minor event that happened in 1910 so it went on the floor and straight to a charity shop .. It was obvious early on which way the story was going and so the mystery element never engaged me . The only mystery to me is why such a feeble book should attract so many good reviews .
Did I mention the writing ? I had better not ......

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Oct 11, 2012 Jolene rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed reading the book. Lots of characters and suspense and complex connections. Provided some views into different cultures, different times, different values. Troubled by the authors lack of developing one character that he should have left out of the story if he wasn't going to fully utilize the her (the protagonist's daughter). I could not wait to get back to the book and keep reading it but the ending left a bad aftertaste. Too bad!

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Mar 09, 2012 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found the main character in the present day part of the story (written in 1988), to be quite unlikeable. I suspect that was the author's intent. The story goes between the present and the past, as the disgraced historian, Martin, tries to solve a mystery from the early 1900's. It is interesting to see the similarities between the characters and story lines of the two times, the present mirroring the past.

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Aug 15, 2011 LG rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: summer readers

Recommended to LG by: Biogeek

This turned out to be a great beach read! I mean, it’s a story about a British Member of Parliament, and one from the early 1900s at that – not something I’d ordinarily care about. And yet I was rapt. Whether it was narrator Martin Radford’s, or that of his disgraced subject Edwin Strafford, every part of the story kept me turning the pages. Goddard is the kind of veteran storyteller who makes compelling characterization and well-paced plot twisting look effortless. I’d raise an eyebrow at the b...more

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Feb 07, 2010 Nancy K rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Thank you fellow GoodRead Goddard fans. I am listening to Past Caring - and I must admit I was getting a bit tired of the background story and wishing for the book to move on. But the other reviewers have reminded me to take a breath and enjoy the ride. I have loved the other Robert Goddard books I have read and I know he will surprise and delight me with a wonderful masterful style of writing. So thank you fellow GoodReaders.

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Dec 17, 2011 Sammie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A split plot, just the kind of format I like. In the 1980s, a historian takes on the job of figuring out why a prominent young politician in the 1910s would resign without reason and disappear into obscurity. Armed with the politician's memoirs he gradually learns the truth, and realises that the past can be just as dangerous now as it ws then. Great twists and turns and a well-paced plot.

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Aug 17, 2009 Trish rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mysteries

I love Goddard and buy everything he writes as soon as it comes out. I save his books until I have time to spend and a hankering for something well above the common. In this case, Past Caring struck me as a little long-winded, but he is forgiven. Goddard writes an old fashioned mystery, and this time his style was positively victorian. He must also have spent some lovely hours on islands in the Mediterranean since several of his novels feature a village of blindingly white stucco cottages facing...more

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Feb 03, 2009 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my first Robert Goddard and I've read all his books since. You need to space them out as they obviously have a similar formula, but I enjoy them as thrillers/light reading. They often weld past and present together in telling the stories, and there are plenty of twists. Good quality holiday reading.

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Feb 05, 2009 Hazel McHaffie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've just read this book for the second time and I have to single it out for a special recommendation. It is absolutely brilliant. Evocative of places I love - Madeira and Devon. Craftily hinged around historical detail. Amazingly cleverly plotted and so gripping I didn't want to go out!
Quite the best book I've rerad in years. I'd love to hear if anyone else shares my enthusiasm for it.

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