Past Imperfect - Brossura

Fellowes, Julian

3,6

6.187 valutazioni di Goodreads

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753825414 ISBN 13: 9780753825419

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2009

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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...

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Guaranteed page turners don't come much better than Past Imperfect...witty, intelligent and elegantly written (SUNDAY HERALD)

This delightful comedy of manners from a master of social satire is perceptive, acute and ultimately very poignant. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE)

Descrizione del libro:

SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SNOBS and Oscar winning writer of the screenplay for GOSFORD PARK returns with a thrilling new novel

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