![]() ![]() Buying kitchen appliances and utensils at IKEA - bizarre. A vacant 22,000 foot mansion that needs only a coat of paint and updated upholstery fabrics - highly improbable. One acre of prime land in San Francisco - priceless. More perplexing to me than the ghosts are more practical matters, such as the math. Do the housekeepers see the formal dining table with its elaborate place settings for a large party almost nightly? Who cooks the multi-course spreads? The couple hired to keep house wonder if they have entered the twilight zone because they hear the Gregorys constantly talking to themselves. The Gregory family adapts to the lifestyle of the 1917 rich and famous, while members of the Butterfield clan become computer literate. Everyone, including two college aged children, dons formal dress for dinner, which magically appears on the formal banquet table.Īs time passes, past and present intersect. The two families become fast friends, dining in splendor most nights. For reasons that make sense only to Danielle Steele, the bank that owns the house sells it to Blake for a song.īlake is unaware that the mansion is occupied by the ghosts of the entire Butterfield family, who are “living” 100 years prior. ![]() While searching for an appropriate four bedroom rental, he happens upon a 22,000 square foot boarded up mansion on one acre of land in Pacific Heights. When Blake is offered the job of a lifetime at a San Francisco startup, he convinces Sybil to uproot the family and quickly move to the west coast for at least two years. Sybil and Blake Gregory, with their three children, live in a four bedroom Tribeca apartment. Ridiculous, even by Danielle Steele standardsĮach time I pick up a Danielle Steele book, usually to be read while passing time in an airport, I ask myself why I waste my money. Past Perfect is Danielle Steel at her bewitching best, a novel for the ages. 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. They have much to teach each other, as the Gregorys watch the past unfold while living their own modern-day lives. The two families are delighted to share elegant dinners and warm friendship. All very much alive in spirit-and visible to the Gregorys and no one else. 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.Īll long since dead. The original inhabitants appear for a few brief minutes. 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. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. 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. 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.
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