Past perfect : a novel (Book, 2017) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Past perfect : a novel

Past perfect : a novel

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2017]
Edition/Format:   Print book : Fiction : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life -- she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments -- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Ghost stories
Love stories
Romance fiction
ghost stories
Paranormal fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Histoires de fantômes
Historical fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Named Person: Apparitions; Household Moving; Mansions
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Danielle Steel
ISBN: 9781101883976 1101883979 9781683316718 1683316711 9780525501268 0525501266
OCLC Number: 965445823
Description: 282 pages ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Danielle Steel.

Abstract:

Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life -- she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments -- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. The past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion filled with tender memories and haunting portraits when an earthquake shocks them the night they arrive. The original inhabitants appear for a few brief minutes. In the ensuing days, the Gregorys meet the large and lively family who lived there a century ago: distinguished Bertrand Butterfield and his gracious wife Gwyneth, their sons Josiah and little Magnus, daughters Bettina and Lucy, formidable Scottish matriarch Augusta and her eccentric brother Angus. All long since dead. All very much alive in spirit and visible to the Gregorys and no one else. The two families are delighted to share elegant dinners and warm friendship. They have much to teach each other, as the Gregorys watch the past unfold while living their own modern-day lives. Within these enchanted rooms, it is at once 1917 and a century later, where the Gregorys gratefully realize they have been given a perfect gift: beloved friends and the wisdom to shape their own future with grace from a fascinating past.
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