Past Imperfect
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Past Imperfect
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Narrated by:
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Julian Fellowes
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By:
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Julian Fellowes
About this listen
Damian Baxter is very rich and dying. He lives alone, attended by chauffeur, butler, cook and a housemaid, a life of everything and nothing. Before he goes he needs to know if he has a living heir. At stake is his fortune - in excess, he reckons, of £500 million. By the time he married he was sterile (the result of adult mumps in his early twenties), but what about before that unfortunate illness? Had he fathered a child as a young man?
An anonymous letter from twenty years before suggests so. But finding the truth will not prove easy, as the only man who knows where to look is Damian's sworn enemy.
Often funny and on occasion even shocking, the twists and turns of Past Imperfect will leave readers as intrigued as Damian at the eventual outcome.
Just as in his bestselling book Snobs, Julian Fellowes shows himself a wonderful storyteller with characters superbly observed. Here is the Jane Austen of the twenty-first century with more than an acerbic dash of Evelyn Waugh.
©2008 Julian Fellowes (P)2008 Orion Publishing Group LtdWhat listeners say about Past Imperfect
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Julie Bradby
- 26-07-2018
Belgravia and Downton Abbey now seem vilified
I'm not an expert reviewer so please excuse a simple viewpoint
In listening to this tale of Britain's 70s posh crowd Past Imperfect' you get a sense as an Aussie how burdened or blessed they are with class ! It's a sourness that can turn a generation into failures
But through the veil of structure to weave a story it became evident that despite wealth inherited earned or given people are just as brave vulnerable and true or not as anyone
But I'd rather be rich than poor and found myself envious of the wealth inherited and the opportunities it would give to be generous and influential in a good way
Loved the fish soup scenario it has to be a series just to see that scene !!!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Julie V. Purdey
- 01-01-2018
Brilliant
Julian Fellowes never ceases to deliver thought provoking insights into the human condition. This look into a class which he inhabited and a generation which I belonged to was fascinating and highly entertaining.
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