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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