Days Without Number

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" ... Nick Paleologus, a coolly efficient Englishman, is summoned home to resolve a dispute that threatens to tear his family apart. His father Michael is a retired archaeologist and supposed descendant of the last Emperors of Byzantium. Michael has received a hugely generous offer for the family estate in Cornwall, but refuses to sell--and refuses to divulge why. Soon the stalemate between Nick's siblings and their father is tragically broken, and only then do they discover why their father was bound to protect the house at all costs ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Description

Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father. Michael Paleologus lives alone in a remote and rambling house on the Cornish bank of the River Tamar. A ridiculously generous offer has been made for the house, but he refuses to sell despite the urgings of his children, for whom the proceeds would solve many problems. Nick accomplishes little as mediator, but the stalemate is soon tragically broken. Only then do Nick and his siblings discover why their father was bound at all costs to reject the offer and what may really be the motives of the prospective buyer.

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Other Editions

• Days Without NumberBantam2003-01-01
• Days Without NumberPaperbackCorgi Adult2003-01-01
• Days Without NumberCORGI BOOKS (TWLD)2003-12-05
• Days without numberCharnwood2004-01-01
• Days Without NumberTransworld Publishers Limited2010-01-01
• Days Without NumberPenguin Random House2010-01-01