Beyond Recall interweaves present and past as Christian Napier sets out to discover the truth behind his great-uncle's murder, committed during the days of rationing and privation following the Second World War. That death provided the foundation of the Napier family's subsequent prosperity, but Christian is led to question the verdict reached in the case by the more recent suicide of an old and abandoned friend. The whole of the action is relayed through Napier's eyes and voice as he struggles to sort out his understanding of what happened before he was born, his own memories as a child, the alcohol-hazed intervening years, and the current arm's-length relationship he maintains with the surviving members of his family.

Found this in a cupboard and it's a fairly battered copy as I think it was dropped in the bath at some point! I read it quite a few years ago.

Sending this as a swap to johnevelyn. Should be on its way in a few days.

Kindly crossed by herrgirl and awaited my return from San Francisco.

I loved the descriptions of Truro and its cathedral and also the area around Trelissick and the King Harry Ferry below which are described in the book. Goddard once again succeeded in writing of places for which I have fond memories.

As always it the mystery is about dark things of the past that haunt those in the present. Chris Napier's boyhood friend Nicky was son of the man who murdered Chris' great uncle... but of course there are layers of mystery below that send wreak havoc on the successful business family.

Ever on the search for industrial change in novels I loved the description of contemporary Yorkshire "I drove into Hebden Bridge from the east and saw it as its meekest, the chimneys smokeless, the mills silent." (p230)

Received from Johnevelyn as part of a trade.

Thank you very much, I am putting this onto my wife's TBR pile - I don't see why she should get away with not havign a big Mnt Tbr...

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I will be taking this to the meet at The Cherry Tree. Rubybluelady may be interested in this one.

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