
In one sense a historical thriller, and in. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The novels subtlety is reflected in the different meanings of its title, and the satisfying climax weaves together the strands of past and present.

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. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Past Caring at. Martin is shown the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. At a luxurious villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, unemployed historian Martin Radford is given a second chance. 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. A BEST-SELLING NOVEL WHICH WILL HAVE YOU UTTERLY ENTRANCED TILL ITS THRILLING CLIMAX. But as he retraces Strafford's ruination, Martin realizes that Strafford did not fall by chance he was pushed.

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. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance.
