The Second Footman by Jasper Barry
The
Second Footman
Nineteen year-old
Max is the duchesse de Claireville's second footman, but he does not intend to
endure the indignities of service for long. He has a plan-to find an
aristocratic patron who will become his unwitting accomplice in an audacious
fraud. It is true that in 1880s' France, despite nearly a century of revolution
and social turmoil, the aristocracy is still firmly entrenched in privilege,
and the gulf between the salon and the servants' hall is as wide as ever. But
Max is handsome, quick to learn and confident of his abilities as a seducer of
both men and women. Whether ladling soup into noble plates beneath crystal
chandeliers, or reading biographies of the great generals
in his squalid footman's dormitory, he is planning his strategy. He, Max, is
the man of the future - ruthless, above morality and sentimental attachments.
Yet, when, after a couple of false starts, he at last acquires his patron, he
finds himself ambushed by instinctive longings-for friendship, for
affection-that threaten his grand plan. 'Be true to yourself...' the saying
goes. But to which self? And what is 'truth'?
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Author
Bio –
Jasper Barry graduated
from Cambridge with a degree in English and has worked in
advertising, then in journalism.
Jasper lives in London with too many books and three
obstreperous cats.
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