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The Manila series: Uncle Jack

UNCLE JACK
soft cover 36 pp 34x24cm
ISBN 0-473-10064-9

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‘Our Uncle Jack wears a navy-blue duffle coat, a ninety-year old pork pie hat and scuffed gumboots painted with lightening bolts. He comes every Friday for fish n chips, but we must never mention that the fish once had eyes and a mouth and swam in the sea. Old Jack, he’s a softie for furs and feathers and fins, our Grandad says. Best not go there.’

This story ventures into the interior world of a luminous, quirky personality, a character evoked in such a way that his age and capacity beguile and puzzle right up to the story’s climax. The night and day of Uncle Jack’s imaginative world, his fears and fantasies and fabulous passions come to life with characters reminiscent of mythology, nursery rhymes and childhood stories. Rich with the warmth of family life and rituals, this book explores the power of light-handed loving and the ability to be gloriously who you are.