Revisiting The Servant

Sandrine Bessancort presents her vastly extended and re-imagined in the female-led style; take on S.T. Semyonov's classic short-story: "Revisiting The Servant".

A tale set in early-20th century Russia describing the fall-from-manly-grace befalling a former golden-boy on hard and homeless times after he asks a friend to petition his employer for a vacancy on his behalf.

Not to know that employer is a recent and less than beauteous young widow with an exalted view of her own station.

As well as being of a highly controlling nature her new wealth and standing in a provincial Russian town on the edge of Moscow puts her in a position to exercise.

All of which is bad news for the one-time man of prospects whose desperation and an inexplicable attraction to the younger widow is used by her to realise a long-held fantasy that will be equally long-term if she has her way.

For though he has no recall of her; the widow and now woman of means is familiar with him after having escaped the same dirt-poor village in which they were both born.

And remembers the former in demand golden-boy unaware of her existence all too well!

Sandrine Bessancort writes highly-regarded and re-imagined female-led fiction after the style of authors varying from: Doyle, de Maupassant, Blackwood, and Sax Rohmer – amongst others.

Sandrine lives in Honfleur with her husband and is a Sorbonne educated graduate in the classics of New World and European Literature.  

eBook length: 25k-words.