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Past Perfect
Past Perfect: A Novel | Danielle Steel
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The latest hardcover from #1 New York Times bestselling author 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 lifeshe as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investmentsraising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he cant 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 spiritand 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 giftbeloved 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.
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Eggs
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A family moves into a 100 yo home, and then meets the original owners soon after, in the house, in their era - early 1900s. The ghost family understands that the new owners are from a different time period. When the ghost young man goes to war(WW1) he dies but shows up at the house again a few months later??? So, kind of parallel universes? Hard to wrap my brain around that, as well as other events in the story. Non-credible 🤔
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Tadams4
Past Perfect: A Novel | Danielle Steel
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Danielle Steel is always entertaining however this book is a departure from her usual type of book. The story involves two families, separated by one hundred years, occupying the same house. I did love the characters and their interactions.

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Reggie
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Mehso-so

Danielle can still tug some heartstrings but overall this book lacked risks. She just played this story out all very safe.

TheBookgeekFrau Love the visuals! 🤣 7y
Eggs Love this post! Read the book this week (edited) 1y
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Reggie
Past Perfect: A Novel | Danielle Steel
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#getmovin When I read #somethinglikethis letter from the author at the beginning of the book, I get a little agitated when they go on to write this somewhat enchanting novel of a family who moves into a new home, a century old, and then starts having dinner with the ghosts of the family who were the original owners. But then, the alive mother starts teaching the ghost mother a how to on computers. Is that reasonable?

Reggie This is what happens when you ask the sweetest work grandma how her book is and next thing you know she says, “Reg, I left the book for you because it was sooooo good.” And you don‘t say no to work grandma right? 7y
DivineDiana Right! 😉 7y
Cinfhen Nooooo!!! Bad karma to turn down a book from sweet grandma 7y
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DivaDiane Hmmm. She‘s basically saying, “it only works for me when *I* write it.” Either that or she never thought the idea *could* work, and she convinced herself by doing it. 7y
LibrarianToujours Says the author who wrote at least 3 books this year where the woman‘s wealthy father/husband dies suddenly, then the family takes all the money leaving her destitute, so she starts a new career in fashion 🙄. Maybe getting over your bias and writing something new isn‘t a bad thing 😆 7y
Cathythoughts I guess that‘s reasonable 🤷🏻‍♀️if that‘s where you are at. I can never pass your posts Reggie ... have to read them ! Thankyou for putting in the time & effort ❤️ 7y
Reggie @DivaDiane @NHLibrarian maybe I‘m coming at this the wrong way? Lol, maybe she should be commended for trying something new. I just felt like, damn, Danielle Steele. You‘ve written over 50 books, I thought you were a master of imagination. Idk, it just rubbed me the wrong way. @Cathythoughts Thanks for saying that. That is very sweet of you to say. 7y
DivaDiane It rubbed me the wrong way too! Not a fan of DS really and this doesn‘t help. My previous post was really about how full of herself she seems with those statements! 7y
LibrarianToujours @Reggie Agree with @DivaDiane. I have patrons who love her, but it drives me crazy that she takes up so much shelf space and basically writes the same story over and over. 7y
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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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Daniel still seems to be hitting them out of the park lately as I've enjoyed several of her recent books even more than usual! This one is a bit unique in that two families, living 100 Years of Park, in two different dimensions, come to be living together in a mansion. They learn to live together, respect one another, learn from each other, and become family to one another. A very unique but fascinating book!