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Title: Past Imperfect
Author: Julian Fellowes
Narrator: Julian Fellowes
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-30-08
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Limited
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
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.

Members Reviews:
Fun but shallow
This book was good fun to listen to, and top marks to Julian Fellowes for reading it himself - he was excellent. However, the characters were all so silly and shallow and similar to one another, particularly the women, that by the end I couldn't give a damn who got the inheritance. In fact, just a few days after finishing listening to it, I find I can't even remember who it was....

A Charming Education!
I thought the whole premise was good and the layering up of the plot was excellent. I thought it was very thought provoking and, being a child of the 80s it made me really consider the changes that took place in society in the 60s & 70s.

Evocative, witty and sad
There are several strands to this book that make it a very satisfying experience. The backdrop is the transition point in the social life of the British aristocracy and their acolytes that occurred in the 1960s. Debutantes are are no longer presented at Court, but are still paraded before potential suitors, though some are questioning whether a 'good' marriage should be their only goal. Julian Fellows, as in his Gosford Park, deftly exposes the petty snobberies, unearned privileges and vacuousness of this world. However, the book is far much more than a witty satire of Society as the main theme of the book is a dying man's quest to find a son, he didn't know he fathered decades earlier, that carries the book along.