Past Caring [Import] [Paperback]

Robert Goddard (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 524 pages
• Publisher: Corgi Books (1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 055213144X
• ISBN-13: 978-0552131445
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,389,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of Robert Goddard's best, October 27, 2007

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HORAK (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Past Caring (1930's Trilogy) (Audio CD)

Martin Redford is an unemployed and divorced ex-schoolteacher of foundered promise and dismal prospect. So when Alec Fowler suggests that Martin comes to visit him on the island of Madeira with the promise of a prospective job offered by his South African friend Leo Sellick, he eagerly accepts.

It turns out that when Sellick became the owner of his house, the Quinta do Porto Novo, he came across a manuscript written by its previous owner, Edwin Strafford. Strafford had been appointed Home Secretary in 1908 at the age of thirty-two. Why did he resign two years later without explanation before becoming British Consul on Madeira? Why was he abruptly rejected by his fiancée, suffragette Elizabeth Latimer? Who or what betrayed Edwin Strafford in 1910? It is going to be a twisty path for Martin Redford, now Leo Sellick's employee, to find the answers to these questions and many others.

A good plot and a sound historical background are the qualities of this entertaining adventure story. Paul Shelley is the excellent reader of this novel for BBC Audiobooks.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Goddard, December 24, 2001

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Dolphin (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Past Caring (Paperback)

Yet another fantastic story from Robert Goddard, and that's what it is A STORY - so all the historians out there who don't like history being tampered with, should remember that it's fiction!
You really feel for Martin, the central character, who is a historian down on his luck when he is offered an opportunity of employment in researching former cabinet minister Edwin Stafford's memoir. As is typical with Robert Goddard there are plenty of twists in the tale, this is a brilliant book and I'd recommend it to anyone who just wants a good read.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Past Caring, December 2, 1999

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A. Freeman "a_freem" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Past Caring (Paperback)

Past Caring was brought to me from England by my sister years ago.It is now available here.For years it was not.

This novel is one of my favorite books.I read all of Goddard's books, but Past Caring remains my FAVORITE.