Past perfect : a novel

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Label

Past perfect : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Danielle Steel

Creator

• Steel, Danielle,
• trueSteel, Danielle

Author

• Steel, Danielle,

Subject

• trueFamilies
• Families -- Fiction
• Fiction / Contemporary Women
• trueGhosts
• trueHaunted houses
• trueHistoric buildings
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Large type books
• trueLocal history
• trueMainstream fiction
• trueManhattan, New York City
• trueMansions
• Apparitions -- Fiction
• trueMarried people
• trueMoving to a new city
• Moving, Household -- Fiction
• Pacific Heights (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction
• Paranormal fiction
• Rich people -- Fiction
• trueSan Francisco, California
• Mansions -- California | San Francisco -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• trueEarthquakes

Genre

• trueMainstream fiction
• trueParanormal fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Fiction
• trueDomestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3569.T33828

LC item number

P35 2017b

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult