Undermajordomo Minor: A Novel

"Poor Lucy. The leading man of Patrick DeWitt’s book isn’t much to write home about — or look at, or listen to. Lucien Minor is a liar who’s no good at lying, an underling to a castle servant and, what’s more, a suitor to a taken woman. Still, he makes for a fitting guide — charmingly befuddled and besieged by circumstance — in this twist on the common folk tale. DeWitt takes on familiar tropes just to turn them on their heads, and the results are by turns funny, fascinating and often plain weird — a bit like Lucy himself."