![]() From the beginning, the reader knows that he is not Patrick but an imposter. ![]() Just before this milestone, a young man turns up claiming to be Patrick Ashby. ![]() Precarious, that is, until Simon, now the heir to his mother's fortune after Patrick's death, turns 21 when he will inherit. Beatrice Ashby (known as Bee) had stepped in to look after her nephews & nieces & take on the running of The Latchetts, the estate & horse stud that would provide a precarious living for the family. His parents had been killed in a plane crash shortly before but his family - twin brother Simon, sisters Eleanor, Jane & Ruth & Aunt Beatrice - & friends had no idea that he was distressed enough to take such a drastic step. He threw himself off a cliff or swam out to sea until he could swim no more. Patrick Ashby committed suicide when he was just thirteen. ![]()
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