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Past Perfect: A Novel

de Danielle Steel

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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.… (mais)
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Danielle Steel posted this in the beginning of the book and I totally agree with her. “I have never liked “ghost stories,” nor books out time travel, which seem too far-fetched for me, and not very productive....”

Who knows what # this Danielle Steel book is that I've read, but it's nice to read a non-romance by her once in a while.

It was a sort of paranormal book I guess you could call it. I'd love to live in a mansion that is over 100 years old. It was a multi-generational house and the time travel plays into it with the ancestors who lived in it. It seemed a little far-fetched with them living there as ghosts, especially with both families having dinner together and the time differences but it was fun and they got used to them. It was a nice juxtaposition of them living together in a way and the conversations they had and the difference. They were like family.

It was a touching and sentimental book. ( )
  sweetbabyjane58 | Jun 5, 2023 |
This book was another TBR on my shelf forever and again Danielle Steel has really put out an interesting and different great book! She comments at the beginning of it that she never wanted to do write the past and present ghost thing, but went ahead and did it anyway. Its's absolutely out there for a plot but no matter it makes you happy to read it and reality has nothing to do with what I read. We get enough reality in our daily lives so read this and enjoy! ( )
  mchwest | Mar 14, 2022 |
2 families in the same house living together; however, for one family it is 1917 and the other family is 2017. For the most part this story was interesting. I had to keep telling myself that it doesn't have to make sense. I did find the two people dying and then returning as ghosts and still living with family like nothing had happened to be a tad over the top.
I did love reading about this huge mansion and Steel painted a beautiful picture with words of this house. ( )
  travelgal | Dec 28, 2021 |
Blake and Sybil are both successful in their careers in NYC, and they and their two teenaged children are decidedly settled on the East Coast — that is, until Blake receives an employment offer he can't refuse ($$) from a West Coast startup. He flies out ahead of the rest of the family to secure a large, airy apartment (Sybil's request), but when he can't find anything that fits their criteria he stumbles upon an enormous historic mansion that has stood empty for several decades and is immediately drawn to it. Sybil and the kids arrive to find that, not only do they also dig the mansion, but ghosts of the family who initially built the home are also living there.

A little background: At the library where I work we decided to have a summer Danielle Steel book club, since none of us had read her and were curious about what the appeal might be. Everyone chose a book based solely on the author photo on the back cover and then were asked to read their selection and report back. Our findings were similar: simple language, head-scratching amounts of repetition, little emotional depth, and all tell-no show. Criticism aside, I feel like I hit the jackpot with Past Perfect with respect to a plot that was rather delightfully bizarre. However, I don't imagine I will read another DS as I could not stop myself from mentally attempting to rearrange sentences in my head for punctuation and grammar corrections, as well as greater clarity. ( )
1 vote ryner | Aug 31, 2021 |
Past perfect by Steel_ Danielle
Cybil and Blake married almost 20 years and they have 3 kids-2 in high school and one in first grade, born and raised in NYC and love it there.
Blake gets an offer in San Fran and goes out to check it out-there is nothing that will keep him from going there and making tons of money-he has to persuade his wife and kids to go also...
Not only did he take the job but bought a huge house, very old for them to move into.
20,000 square feet 1902 house with storage that included all art and furniture. Cybil loves the place and the move will give her time to finish writing her book and still do design work if the offers come.
They all arrive with their high tech devices and it's quite the contrast to what the house is all about...
Eathquake occurs and things are moved to new locations prior to that.... Youngest keeps thinking there are hidden passages and ghosts...
Cybil had seen the prior residents as ghosts and tries to explain what she saw when she sees the pictures on the walls.
She reads the family historical book and finds out who they all are and calls in someone who specializes in ghosts and he tells her they feel comfortable there and she wants them gone!
Like how the families meld but i still think it's very weird. What Cybil finds in the book and acts on it is really weird! Servants think the whole family is crazy talking to themselves as they can't see the old family.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )
  jbarr5 | Apr 26, 2018 |
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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.

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