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Past Imperfect

From the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY and THE GILDED AGE

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Past Imperfect

Yazan: Julian Fellowes
Seslendiren: Richard Goulding
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Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune...

PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker 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? He was not a virgin. Had he sired a child? A letter from a girlfriend from these times suggests he did. But the letter is anonymous.

Damian contacts someone he knew from their days at university. He gives him a list of girls he slept with and sets him a task: find his heir...©2008 Julian Fellowes Amateur Sleuths Fatherhood Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Parenting & Families Relationships Kurgu Komedi
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I’ve thought of this book as a sort of archive of another time. It was interesting if I thought of it that way. I have to say the story didn’t completely hold me as Belgravia did. But having listened to so much I did want to get to the big reveal. I was pleased I kept with it eventually.

Another world

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Very much like Julian Fellowes other work (Downton Abbey or Gosford Park) this novel is more about visiting another world in time rather than a gripping plot.
The story is really just a MacGuffin to propel the narrator back to his memories at various stages of the dying days of the London Debutant season. And for that it is so good.
These aren’t loveable characters or thrilling mysteries but they do open up a world that it interesting and rich in its detail. No piece of furniture or carpet goes unnoticed, the sympathy for sad characters is touching.
I have no idea if it is an accurate portrayal of the time and situation but you could hazard a guess that Julian Fellowes, being who he is, might have more experience than most of that world. I enjoyed it when I read it years ago and I really liked this narrator. I’ll listen to it again and would recommend it. It won’t be for everyone but if you like the idea of glimpsing that period of time for the upper classes in England then you might enjoy this.

It’s the atmosphere not the story that keeps you listening.

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This is one of my absolute favourites. I have read the book several times and have thoroughly enjoyed the audible version too.

An absolute marvel!

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Absolutely loved the narration, perfectly capturing the studied deadpan of the upper classes while still conveying subtle emotion. The story, though not gripping, is well-paced and the characters fleshed-out. A pleasant tangent from Fellowes’s usual style.

Interesting story from a period not often covered, and very well narrated

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rather a commentary on society from the 1950s onwards than a novel. boring and tepid

lacks characterisation &plot

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