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. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the. 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. At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance.

But as he retraces Strafford's ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance he was pushed. The mystery in which the narrator finds himself is clever and intriguing. 4 Lot Robert Goddard- Past Caring, Set in Stone, Name to a Face, One False Move. 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. Robert Goddard takes well-known characters from a period of history, about 100 years ago and weaves a spell-binding tale around them. Exploring all human characteristics and behaviours against a political backdrop which develops in. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. An intriguing, interesting and difficult to put down book. What appealed to me was a work of historical fiction being set in a ‘present’ of the 1960s but pursuing the ghosts of the 1910s. My historical interests including the period which this book covers.

At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. The title does seem to be asking for trouble here and in what is quite some intense plotting there were times when I felt I myself was approaching the past caring stage but there was always just a little twist to get my interest back when I could feel it fading. I chose Past Caring as the first book because I am myself a trained historian.

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