Past Imperfect

Past Imperfect

Softcover
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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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Format
Softcover
Pages
528
Price
16.71 €

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I loved the story, the detective-like investigation into the past that came with melancholic and bittersweet memories and most of all the way the characters were laid out and explored in depth. I do have some issues with the narrator. I read "Snobs" right before this one and throughout "Past Imperfect" I had the impression, that the narrators were identical. Their voice, their views on life, the way they commented on the lifestyle of the upper class were uncannily alike and I very often had to remind myself, that I was not reading "Snobs" anymore. Also, the novel is quite lengthy and even too long in parts, but it nevertheless managed to keep me interested.

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