Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

In the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.

A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Small is Patrick deWitt’s long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.

Lucien (Lucy) Small is the resident unusual duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, about Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel youthful and aimless, Lucy can be a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling inside a town famous for generating brutish giants. After that Lucy accepts work helping the Majordomo of the remote control, foreboding Castle Von Aux.

While maintaining his fresh post as Undermajordomo, Lucy quickly discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s get good at, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colourful people of the local village-thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a sensitive beauty whose love he must compete for with the extremely good-looking soldier, Adolphus. Therefore begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, home mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behavior can be laid uncovered for our hero to observe.

Undermajordomo Minor is an experience, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but most importantly it really is a love tale and Lucy should be careful, for love is a violent matter.