Jack Maggs healing & health 'This book is mind blowing'

'This book is mind blowing' - ***** Reader review

deceit and betrayal

a hair-raising feat and an encounter with a family of acrobats

But something is stirring in the inhospitable spaces between the kingdoms

Val McDermid

Jack Maggs healing & health 'This book is mind blowing'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award, Peter Carey's Jack Maggs is dazzlingly entertaining. The year is 1837 and ex convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. Maggs, a figure