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JACK AND MO: Two young men. Two journeys. Two shipwrecks.
'A haunting and richly textured novel that show how the past informs the present. What has been lived may live with us still.'
Alan Judd, award-winning author of A Fine Madness.
Two young men. Two journeys. Two shipwrecks.
When the discovery of a Saxon sword hilt on an island off Helsinki is announced on the internet, Stuart Richardson, an unfulfilled museum curator recognises it could be a relic of the Battle of Hastings. But why so far away? If true it would change his life.
The story unfolds of Jack, a 15th century country boy who joins a ship and carries the sword hilt to the Baltic, and his 21st century counterpart Mo, an asylum seeker who discovers it on a beach cleaning project in Finland.
Stuart's integrity is challenged as he has to justify the authenticity of the find when it is over a thousand mils from where it should be. His mental health is affected. Or are his symptoms due to a spell cast upon him?
The novel has themes of migration, PTSD, the repatriation of museum objects and witchcraft.
Alan Judd, award-winning author of A Fine Madness.
Two young men. Two journeys. Two shipwrecks.
When the discovery of a Saxon sword hilt on an island off Helsinki is announced on the internet, Stuart Richardson, an unfulfilled museum curator recognises it could be a relic of the Battle of Hastings. But why so far away? If true it would change his life.
The story unfolds of Jack, a 15th century country boy who joins a ship and carries the sword hilt to the Baltic, and his 21st century counterpart Mo, an asylum seeker who discovers it on a beach cleaning project in Finland.
Stuart's integrity is challenged as he has to justify the authenticity of the find when it is over a thousand mils from where it should be. His mental health is affected. Or are his symptoms due to a spell cast upon him?
The novel has themes of migration, PTSD, the repatriation of museum objects and witchcraft.
332 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 6, 2022
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