Audio edition of the new novel from Julian Fellowes. Abridged. 5
CDs.
Stephen Fry praised Julian Fellowes' previous novel, Snobs, as
'a guilty treat'. A Sunday Times bestseller, it won praise
and an enthusiastic readership across the world. Its successor,
Past Imperfect, is another treat, an enthralling comedy of manners,
but with an intriguing conundrum at its heart.
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.
"Julian Fellowes has a wickedly keen eye for observing the habits of the upper classes ... Past Imperfect is intelligently and wittily written." DAILY EXPRESS 'PAST IMPERFECT is a brilliant observation of the upper classes of society by Julian Fellowes...Julian is the perfect writer of this genre and his rendition on audio very definitely gives you a flavour of the atmosphere of the period... An audio book to enjoy at leisure.' BOOK FIENDS KINGDOM www.bfkbooks.com 'thoroughly enjoyable.' -- Sue Arnold THE GUARDIAN
Julian Fellowes (am 17. August 1949 in Ägypten geboren) wuchs in England auf, studierte Englische Literatur in Cambridge und Schauspiel an der renommierten Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Julian Fellowes kennt sich mit den besseren Kreisen des britischen Empire bestens aus. Für sein Drehbuch Gosford Park, das Robert Altman verfilmte, erhielt er einen Oscar. Heute lebt er mit Frau, Sohn und Hund "Fudge" in Dorchester, einer Kleinstadt im Südwesten der englischen Grafschaft Dorset.
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