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Past Caring
by Goddard, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hale, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. A first edition, first printing published by Hale in 1986. A near fine book without inscription in a very good unclipped wrapper with one small closed tear to the top corner of the front panel, a lovely copy. Past Caring is Robert Goddard's first novel, it received the Booker Award nomination for Best First Novel.
Synopsis
At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What's more, Martin is being offered a job--to return to England and investigate the rise and fall of Strafford, an ambitious young politician whose downfall, in 1910, is as mysterious as the strange deaths that still haunt his family.Martin is intrigued by Strafford's story, by the man's overwhelming love for a beautiful suffragette, by her inexplicable rejection of him and their love affair's political repercussions. But as he retraces Strafford's ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance; he was pushed. Suddenly Martin, who has not cared for many people in his life, cares desperately--about a man's mysterious death and a family's terrible secret, about a love beyond reckoning and betrayal beyond imagining. Most of all Martin cares because the story he is uncovering is not yet over--and among the men and women still caught in its web, Martin himself may be the most vulnerable of all....From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John Atkinson Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9736
- Title
- Past Caring
- Author
- Goddard, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hale
- Date Published
- 1986
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