Past Caring

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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. Several of the recent books published in his name have identified Vaunda as a joint holder of the copyright. However, the information that this document contains is so explosive that Max is compelled to break the cover and instead embark on some desperate and on a very dangerous race to the south. At Leo's request, Martin reads Strafford's journal: after a meteoric rise, Strafford fell for a suffragette--political poison in that era.

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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. Confronting Leo, Martin reveals his find: that Leo is Couchman's bastard son and that he murdered Strafford. 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. First edition first impression from 1986 in VG++ condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm.The plot’s incorporation of a little-known pre-World War I constitutional crisis, the Suffragette movement (which neatly fits in with the women’s movement of the seventies), and well-paced twists makes Past Caring an entertaining page-turner. I think I might have liked it if the style had varied more between the journal and the more modern story.

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After weeks of digging, Martin gets his hands on this second journal and learns that Couchman, with the compli-of cabinet members who found Strafford a political liability, tricked Elizabeth into believing that Strafford was a bigamist.

Although I enjoyed this book immensely, it was let down by the absurdity of it's main premise: That two people who were very much in love could be broken up by a lie, in the way it was presented here. Radford’s own blunders will unfold on this journey as he investigates Strafford’s past in this blended mix of politics, romance and historical thriller.

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Secondly, it is absolutely inconceivable that some with the capability to become home secretary at such a young age (or, indeed, at any age) would not have dug and pushed and prodded until he had found out his supposed crime. This breathless and unending case takes Max to London from far North of Scotland and all the way to Paris, where the world’s government are still but bartering over the spoils right in the aftermath of the Great war. The woman he loved, for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly and coldly rejected him. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. About fine with a little of the typical rubbing at spine ends and edges of fragile dustjacket, which is still about near fine.

His thrillers usually have a historical element and settings in provincial English towns and cities, and many plot twists. With such a plausible scenario, would Elizabeth have allowed some vague concern about the need for discretion (which itself would have got her wondering about how and why a marriage certificate was floating about). 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. The book is too long, with too many twists characterized by learning that yet another person is a liar.