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Past Imperfect

Past Imperfect

by JulianFellowes (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

    $3.28

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    Paperback 2009

    $4.24
Synopsis

Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern - his fortune in excess of 500 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? 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!

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 30 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 0297855220
ISBN 13: 9780297855224
Book Overview: SNOBS sold 50,000 in hardback and 150,000 in paperback; and rights in a dozen countries including the US Julian Fellowes has written a succession of successful screenplays, most recently the Academy Award winning GOSFORD PARK, and THE YOUNG VICTORIA, due for release in 2008 He also wrote the 'book' for the musical of MARY POPPINS, which has been produced in a dozen countries

Media Reviews
A gloriously funny, bumpy ride through modern times. -- Andrew Barrow * THE EVENING STANDARD *
he knows too, how to create memorable characters. Working with an upper-class cast Fellowes populates PAST IMPERFECT with a gallery of sometimes grotesque but mostly affetionately drawn toffs - acidly observed by the narrator, ever peevish, ever diverting. -- Peter Burton * THE DAILY EXPRESS *
PAST IMPERFECT is both a historical document for that vanished era and a comedy of manners....... sharply perceptive and required reading for anyone who was there. -- Claire Colvin * THE DAILY MAIL *
Its plot cannot fail to grip the reader...... what elevates this novel to much more than a comedy of manners is the depth of compassion the author displays for his characters. -- Elisa Segrave * THE SPECTATOR *
An elegant satire, it offers an entertaining commentary on our times and a heartfelt lament for a kinder, more courteous Britain -- Sebastian Shakespeare * TATLER *
A witty take on the world as it was and is now' * WOMAN AND HOME *
It is amusingly written, ends neatly, quietly subverts the surface stereotyping of its characters, and will have a certain kind of social historian swooning with pleasure. -- DJ Taylor * THE GUARDIAN *
Very entertaining - think a more self-aware and sophisticated Jilly Cooper..... the result is that rare thing - an intelligent and insightful blockbuster. * GLOSS MAGAZINE *
An elegy for a long-lost class ill-equipped to deal with its inevitable demise. -- Clare Allfree * METRO *
A funny poignant story from the actor and Oscar-winning writer of Gosford Park * BELLA MAGAZINE *
Elegantly written, it says much about the times that we've lived through. * CHOICE MAGAZINE *
A witty page-turner for those who love reading about the toffs antics of yesteryear. * EASY LIVING *
compelling -- Jane Shilling * THE TIMES *
Elegantly written, intelligent, thoughtful and witty * THE GLASGOW EVENING TIMES *
'A sometimes poignant, sometimes rueful elegy to the era when AA men saluted you' -- Lizy Buchan * SUNDAY TIMES *
Author Bio
Julian Fellowes, actor, writer, director, producer and TV presenter, was educated at Ampleforth, Cambridge and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. As an actor he is probably best known for his portrayal of the incorrigible Lord Kilwillie in the BBC's 'Monarch of the Glen', as well as film roles in 'Shadowlands' with Anthony Hopkins, 'Damage' with Jeremy Irons and 'Tomorrow Never Dies' with Pierce Brosnan. As a writer for TV, he is responsible for the Emmy winning 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' and the BAFTA nominated 'The Prince and the Pauper', which he also produced. His first screenplay for the cinema was 'Gosford Park', directed by Robert Altman, which won a plethora of prizes, not least the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. He also wrote the screenplay for the recent version of 'Vanity Fair', starring Reese Witherspoon, and 'The Young Victoria', currently in post-production. His debut as a director, 'Separate Lies', was released to acclaim in 2006. As well as his novel 'Snobs', he has written a children's book, and the book for the musical of 'Mary Poppins' for Disney. Julian is married to Emma, nee Kitchener, and they have one son, Peregrine.