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Past perfect : a novel / Danielle Steel.
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that doesn't keep the two families from leading a charmed life together.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101883976 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 282 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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| Subject: | Moving, Household > Fiction. Mansions > California > San Francisco > Fiction. Apparitions > Fiction. Pacific Heights (San Francisco, Calif.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Ghost stories. Paranormal fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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| Cookstown Branch | LP FIC Steel | 31681010079879 | LARGEPT | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | FIC Steel | 31681010079770 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An abrupt job relocation that takes them from their well-ordered Manhattan life to San Francisco triggers a collision between the past and present for a successful married couple who during a small earthquake experience visions of their new home's original inhabitants from a century earlier. By the best-selling author ofBlue . - Baker & Taylor
Leaving their well-ordered Manhattan life to move to San Francisco triggers a collision between the past and present for a successful married couple who, during a small earthquake, experience visions of their new home's original inhabitants from a century earlier. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The latest from Danielle Steel, Past Perfect is a spellbinding story of two families living a hundred years apart who come together in time in a startling moment, opening the door to rare friendship and major events in early-twentieth-century history.
Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan lifeâshe as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investmentsâraising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he canât 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 spiritâand 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 giftâbeloved friends and the wisdom to shape their own future with grace from a fascinating past.
Past Perfect is Danielle Steel at her bewitching best, a novel for the ages.
