Kayal

"NOT YOUR REGULAR VICTORIAN ROMANCE""They should invent another word for it. No, actually, you know what? They shouldn't invent anything at all. 'Person' works perfectly well — it covers everyone and every possibility."It is 1894. Dharya Kayal — forty-four years old, former cavalry soldier in Her Majesty's Army, naturalised British subject, homosexual back when the commonly accepted term was still "invert," best friend of Lord Northdall, a man of considerable virtue, enviable charm, and an impressive collection of turbans — is on his way to New York in search of a person. One single individual in a city of three million inhabitants, all of whom, in Kayal's considered opinion, are completely out of their minds.His search proceeds in a crescendo of confusion and eroticism.Between dissolute heiresses determined to make him their trophy, violent (and attractive) police officers, an entire vice district to excavate, prostitutes, abandoned wives, progressive aristocrats, charitably-minded ladies who are fiercely homophobic, rat fights, cross-dressers, Irish gangs, and a society not entirely enthusiastic about dark-skinned gentlemen, Kayal has only two things to rely on: a valet who has never left Norfolk.And an unlimited budget.It will have to do.Unfit is a series about the tribulations of certain respectable individuals who ask nothing more of life than peace, quiet, and the sacred comforts of the patriarchy — now challenged by the existence of people exactly like themselves in every respect, who have never done them any harm, set in a better time, when men were real men and everyone else was sent to hard labour.