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by Robert Goddard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (1 Jul 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0552135623
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552135627
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,035 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 years before, Geoffrey Staddon had left the woman he loved and the house which had been his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Now, in 1935, a murder and its consequences compel him to return. The author's other novels include "Into the Blue".


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Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it for the last time, turned his back on the woman he loved, and who loved him. But when he read that Consuela Caswell had been charged with murder by poisoning he knew, with a certainty that defied the great divide of all those years, that she could not be guilty.

As the remorse and shame of his own betrayal of her came flooding back, he knew too that he could not let matters rest. And when she sent her own daughter to him, pleading for help, he knew that he must return at last to Clouds Frome and to the dark secret that it held.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure of a read, 4 Mar 2009
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Geoffrey Staddon is a failing architect, a man who seems consumed by emotional ennui and lack of purpose. His present is dissolving around him - a failing career, a failed marriage, a frustrated and moribund life. He lives in the past - the past glory of the finest building he's ever built, the haunting memories of past failure in the only real love he has known. The trial of the glamorous, exotic Consuela Caswell brings this all back to him and changes his life forever.

Robert Goddard is a fine story teller - one of the finest around. This is probably one of his best. It is un-put-down-able. Goddard weaves together a tale of murder and romance which is utterly compelling. He does not go in for heroic action heroes - they are more likely ageing, balding, corpulent, a bit uncertain and lacking in confidence. But Geoffrey Staddon grows into the role of romantic hero, exposing his sense of guilt and loss of honour (the book was released in the US under the title of "Debt of Dishonor").

Goddard writes historical drama - this one is set in the post-War world of the 1920's and the uncertainties of the 1930's, it hints at the loss of innocence England suffered on the Western Front and the bleak prospects before it in the years before the next war. The characterisation - of Staddon, of his first love, and of the house he built, is outstanding, the sense of time and times past is utterly convincing. The story is slow-paced but electric in its compulsion - a masterclass in narrative construction and writing skill. Goddard is an outstanding wordsmith. His writing style is intelligent, economical, and wonderfully seductive - he leads you into a story, into the world of the story, and makes you at home within it.

Published in 1991, this was Goddard's fifth novel (following "Into the Blue"). Yet again, he demonstrates his rare ability to weave a tale across time, to take a twelve year span and make it wholly relevant to the plot of the novel. Goddard handles time better than any other writer. He uses it to give depth and gravitas to the characters and narratives he constructs so convincingly. He is a very English writer - he possibly doesn't cross the Atlantic as well as some, the implicit 'cosiness' of his mysteries concealing the dark undercurrents and Goddard's incisive dissection of the English world and character; his plots are intelligent and beautifully sketched in sepia and charcoal rather than projected as visceral, Technicolor displays.

An absolutely first-class work and an absorbing read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Take No Farewell, 20 April 2003
By C Jones (Ely, Cambs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
An absorbing read,which begs you not to put the book for fear of missing the latest twist or turn, with no chance of guessing the ending. Being new to Robert Goddard it was a pleasure to read a well thought out storyline and a gripping tale.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book which you will be unable to put down, 12 Aug 1999
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Robert Goddard is one of the most talented writers of the time. He pulls you into the story as though you were a part of it and keeps you guessing until the very end. His books somehow manage to contain everything, it has suspense, romance, history and always very believable characters. This book is amoung the best with a plot with so many twists, ... and a very enjoyable story. I have yet to meet a person who has not enjoyed his books and i would be amazed if i ever did.
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