Kayal
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Kayal

An Indian in New YorkBy Miss Black
Michael Caine
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Length10h 14m

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"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.

Audiobook details

Rating★★★★ 4.2 (20)
Includes Goodreads
GenreRomance, Psychology
Length10 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1PLACES & CHARACTERS
1615. New York Central Railroad
21. I Lift My Lamp
1716. On the Road
32. At Sea
1817. Beyond the Wood
43. 5th Avenue
1918. An Old Misunderstanding
54. Dinner and After Dinner
2019. Last Night in Town
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65. Gentlemen and Others
2120. Aylsham Hall
76. Reconnaissance
2221. The Letter
87. Nights on the Town
2322. Given the Circumstances
98. Ambushes in the Dark
2423. Raw Love
109. Voices Like Underground Currents
2524. A Menagerie of Nuts
1110. The Veils Fall
2625. Old England
1211. Everyone’s Nature
2726. A Roll of the Dice
1312. Revelations
28Epilogue
1413. A Morning in Town
29Acknowledgements and Notes
1514. Information
30Miss Black

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