Past Imperfect - Tapa dura

A gloriously funny, bumpy ride through modern times. (Andrew Barrow THE EVENING STANDARD)

he knows too, how to create memorable characters. Working with an upper-class cast Fellowes populates PAST IMPERFECT with a gallery of sometimes grotesque but mostly affetionately drawn toffs - acidly observed by the narrator, ever peevish, ever diverting. (Peter Burton THE DAILY EXPRESS)

PAST IMPERFECT is both a historical document for that vanished era and a comedy of manners....... sharply perceptive and required reading for anyone who was there. (Claire Colvin THE DAILY MAIL)

Its plot cannot fail to grip the reader...... what elevates this novel to much more than a comedy of manners is the depth of compassion the author displays for his characters. (Elisa Segrave THE SPECTATOR)

An elegant satire, it offers an entertaining commentary on our times and a heartfelt lament for a kinder, more courteous Britain (Sebastian Shakespeare TATLER)

A witty take on the world as it was and is now' (WOMAN AND HOME)

It is amusingly written, ends neatly, quietly subverts the surface stereotyping of its characters, and will have a certain kind of social historian swooning with pleasure. (DJ Taylor THE GUARDIAN)

Very entertaining - think a more self-aware and sophisticated Jilly Cooper..... the result is that rare thing - an intelligent and insightful blockbuster. (GLOSS MAGAZINE)

An elegy for a long-lost class ill-equipped to deal with its inevitable demise. (Clare Allfree METRO)

A funny poignant story from the actor and Oscar-winning writer of Gosford Park (BELLA MAGAZINE)