# Past Imperfect

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- Book: [Past Imperfect](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-fellowes/past-imperfect) ([Past Imperfect.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-fellowes/past-imperfect.md))
- Authors: [Julian Fellowes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-fellowes)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0910-506-0
- Published: 2008-10-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Damian Barker is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern - his fortune in excess of £100 million and who should inherit it on his death. 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! Read by Julian Fellowes (p) 2008 Orion Publishing Group