Past Imperfect. A novel

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Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy - 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: his fortune in excess of 500 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...

Damian Baxter ist Multimillionär, verheiratet, aber aufgrund einer Mumpserkrankung seit vielen Jahren zeugungsunfähig. Als ihn ein anonymer Brief mit der Andeutung, dass er ein Kind hat, erreicht, forscht er in seiner Vergangenheit und will den eventuellen Erben finden.

60s, Sixties, 20th Century, heritage, inherit, 1968, Novel, british, upper class, father, child