Past Caring

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This is the third novel I’ve read by Robert Goddard (two of them many years ago) but this one (his first) surpasses them both for sheer narrative brilliance. Goddard's 1990 book Into the Blue was the inaugural winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award, presented to the best new fiction author of the year.

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David Venning, a very brilliant mathematician working in the realms of knowledge that perhaps a handful of individuals on this earth would could comprehend, is now suspended between life and death. First edition first impression from 1986 in VG++ condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm. Moreover, Robert Goddard is also an award winning author, heralded with some of his books such as Into the Blue, published in 1990 and which won the W H smith thumping Good read award and which was then presented to the best author of the year. he's a former teacher and maybe journalist who isn't doing much with his life when he receives an invitation to visit a friend in Madeira. 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.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I did not like that almost every single character is a bald-faced liar with a hidden agenda, or that the main villain turns out to be a puppetmaster type, having laid his plans umpteen moves in advance.

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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. 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. You could take virtually any passage from this book and it would read really well on its own, so I understand why you wouldn't want to cut any of it, but when you've got a pacing problem it's time to kill your darlings.He falls in love with a suffragette which is not going to help his career but he is won over by her. What I liked best about the book is that Goddard did an excellent job of writing the journal and the historian's account in two distinctly different voices, lending an air of solid authenticity to the minister's recounting of his life story. The plot thickens as Strafford's son, possessor of a later journal of Strafford's, is murdered by Couchman's son Henry. When first told herself, her initial reaction would have been one of utter disbelief - evidence notwithstanding. 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.

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In a writing career spanning more than twenty years, Robert Goddard's novels have been described in many different ways - mystery, thriller, crime, even historical romance.Actually, the brilliant writings by Robert Goddard has scored highly and although one of his novels, into the Blue was adapted in the year 1997 for television and starred by John Thaw in the lead role, Robert Goddard was however, not so impressed with the outcome of that adaptation following his utterances in an interview where he requested that future adaptations should do justice to the original story. An out of work historian is given an assignment to look into the life of a 1910 British politician turned governor of Madeira.