Sellitt wants to hire Radford in order to find out the truth and Radford, having nothing to lose, accepts. Stafford left a journal behind that might shed light on his life. He has bought an estate that used to belong to Edwin Stafford, appointed Home Secretary in 1908, who disappeared from politics under mysterious circumstances.
He is given the opportunity of lifetime when he is asked to come to the island of Madeira, off the Portuguese coast, to listen to a proposal by a man named Leo Sellitt. The first speaker is Martin Radford, an unemployed teacher and historian, who does not know what he wants to do with his life. One does not know which direction the story is going to go to so all you can do is go with the flow and make a decision whether to trust the narrator's interpretation or not. The novel is told through two first-person narratives, something that always raises questions. It is still a great book and new readers, always hoping for a good mystery, will be pleased to discover it. Now with the book's latest printing, nothing has changed. Robert Goddard's first novel, PAST CARING, made an impression when it came out almost twenty years ago, receiving great praise from critics and a Booker Award nomination for Best First Novel.
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