Past Imperfect, Julian Fellowes
Past Imperfect, Julian Fellowes
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Past Imperfect

Author: Julian Fellowes

Narrator: Richard Morant

Unabridged: 16 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2009

Synopsis

Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook, and housemaid. He has but one concern—his fortune in excess of five hundred million and who should inherit it on his death. Past Imperfect is the story of a quest. Damian Baxter wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult mumps), but what about before that unfortunate illness? Had he sired a child? He sets himself (and others) to the task of finding his heir.

About Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes is the Emmy Award–winning writer and creator of Downton Abbey and the winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park. He also wrote the screenplays for Vanity Fair and The Young Victoria. He is the bestselling author of Snobs and Past Imperfect, and his other works include The Curious Adventure of the Abandoned Toys and the book for the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins. As an actor, his roles include Lord Kilwillie in the BBC Television series Monarch of Glen and the Second Duke of Richmond in Aristocrats, as well as appearances in the films Shadowlands, Damage, and Tomorrow Never Dies. He lives in London and Dorset, England.

About Richard Morant

Richard Morant (1945–2011) appeared in numerous British stage and television productions, including Rumpole of the Bailey, Lord Peter Whimsey, and Tom Brown’s School Days.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on June 28, 2017

"Me aguarde lo que me aguarde, ya sea mucho o poco, eso queda por ver, pero he conocido de lo que hablan los poetas y esa es la razón de que me sienta agradecido". Es curioso la manera en que un libro o un escritor entra en nuestras vidas. En este caso, y prefiero pensar que el azar en sí no existe s......more

Goodreads review by Trish on February 09, 2017

Fellowes is amusing because he is keenly observant, advantageously placed, literate, and loquacious. He puts words together in a way that makes us smirk and smile and acknowledge to be largely truthful, if not entirely. He writes of a class of society most of us will never know personally: the rich,......more

Goodreads review by Tea on April 16, 2013

Od autora D. Abbey :) Sjajan je!......more

Goodreads review by Anna on November 14, 2017

1 1/2 tristes y confusas estrellas. Julian Fellowes es el autor del guión de Gosford Park (una película increíble) y el creador de Downtown Abbey (una serie que, aunque al final dejé de verla, me resultaba fascinante). Es evidente que el señor sabe escribir y que lo hace muy bien, increíblemente bie......more

Goodreads review by Blair on May 12, 2016

This is an extraordinarily evocative book and I truly relished reading it. It's so descriptive that you almost feel as if you're part of the events taking place, and the many switches between the narrator's youth in the late 1960s and the present day are deftly handled. The characters are frequently......more

Quotes

“It’s like a visit to an English country estate: breezy, beautiful, and charming.” New York Times Book Review

“It’s not only the rich who are different, it’s the British upper classes too. This complicated truth, all the more palatable if delivered amusingly, has been successfully tackled by such insiders as P. G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and Nancy Mitford, and is now resurrected by Julian Fellowes.” Miami Herald

“This is a book for a hot winter beach, an escape from life as we know it.” Independent (London)

“Deservedly compared to Tom Wolfe, Fellowes, with his ability to document the aristocracy with a sociologist’s eye, fashions intriguing narratives.” Publishers Weekly

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