Books by Jasper Barry

The long-awaited follow-up to The Second Footman. A modern take on the nineteenth-century novel, set in 1880s' France and full of period detail and atmosphere. Who is Max Fabien? Is he the loyal secretary and faithful lover of the marquis de Miremont? Or a handsome but unscrupulous trickster, who regards any sexual quarry as fair game?

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.