PAST IMPERFECT

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...

This is a brilliant and clever read. The well-known father of Downton Abbey has a sharp view of the past....

Set in the 1960s in aristocratic Great Britain, we become acquainted with several characters, among them the narrator, and get involved in his relationshiop with the hero Damian Baxter.

It tells us much about life and the rules that prevailed then....

An enjoyable read: we are sure you will share it with us!