Radford's investigations trigger a violent series of events, which throw him straight into the path of those who believed they had escaped punishment for crimes long past but never paid for. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness. The woman he loved, for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything, suddenly and coldly rejected him. Out of the blue, unemployed, down-on-his-luck historian.
Strafford resigned at the height of his career, disappearing from the public eye. DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST GRIPPING THRILLERS OF ALL TIME, FROM MASTER STORYTELLER ROBERT GODDARD. Martin is offered a job - to 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. 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. Martin is shown the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. He read History at Cambridge and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a full-time novelist. Past Caring by Robert Goddard: 9780385341172 : Books At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. Out of the blue, unemployed, down-on-his-luck historian Martin Radford is given a second chance. In one sense a historical thriller, and in another a romantic novel of a love affair gone disastrously wrong, this is, in any case, a wonderful read.DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST GRIPPING THRILLERS OF ALL TIME, FROM MASTER STORYTELLER ROBERT GODDARD. The novel's subtlety is reflected in the different meanings of its title, and the satisfying climax weaves together the strands of past and present. As he reads the memoir, Radford eventually comes to regard the dead Home Secretary as a friend, even as his search uncovers corruption and murder. Radford finds a memoir that contains hints of a political and moral crime, past but not forgotten, so devastating that even in 1977 it reverberates through the corridors of power. A fascinating ""could this be true?'' story within a story is reminiscent of Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time, while Thomas Hardy's tragic characters are deliberately echoed in the Edwardian British politician Edwin Strafford and the troubled historian Martin Radford, who has been chosen to research Strafford's tormented life. Rendition yourself into a pulsating thriller that never lets up as it carries the hero and the reader on an ever more desperate race between time and an all. Written in clear, resonant prose, Goddard's first novel, nominated for the Booker prize, is a poised telling of a complex tale.
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