November 2009, EDITOR'S PICK OF THE MONTH

Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes

Sun, Nov 01, 2009

Julian Fellowes, winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park, also wrote the screenplays for Vanity Fair and The Young Victoria. His first novel, Snobs, was a New York Times, L.A. Times, and BookSense bestseller; his other works include The Curious Adventure of the Abandoned Toys and the book for the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins. He lives in London and Dorset, England.

Damian Baxter is dying. He also has lots of money and no family to speak of. But he thinks he might have fathered a child in the late 1960s with one of the many women he consorted with during University. For some reason Damian wants to leave all his wealth to his child, if in fact he does

Fellowes, Julian. Past Imperfect. Read by Richard Morant. 14 CDs. 16.75 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2009. 978-0-7927-6690-2. $115.95. Vinyl binder; plot, author, reader notes. *SA

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By Jean Palmer

Jean Palmer was a librarian in a public library, then a librarian/educator at the largest private high school library in the US. She also wrote and edited audiobook reviews at KLIATTand many other national and local newspapers and magazines. She is, of course, an audiobook fanatic and, along with Fran Levitov, a founding co-editor of SoundCommentary.com.

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