Past Imperfect

• By: Julian Fellowes
• Narrated by: Richard Goulding
• Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
• Categories: Literature & Fiction

About this listen

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 30s 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 (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group