![]() The book called "Jackapple Joe" had wowed the critics and made the Years later, Jay is a grown man, an author with one wonderful book to hisĬredit. Halt when the old railway was sold to an upscale developer and Joeĭisappeared, his shack boarded up and abandoned. It was a magical time for Jay that came to an abrupt Show More named Jackapple Joe, who taught him secrets of herbs, gardening, Refreshing, heartening and uplifting reading. It's only a matter of not losing hope completely and let others surprise you, with one foot in the Earth and the other one suspended in the air, letting the wind blow where it has to. ![]() ![]() I'll stick to the magic and a bit of luck, as Jay says. Magic, wine, faith or simply luck and coincidence. This is a book about haunted lives, unfinished stories and the chance to change your own life and atone for your past mistakes. Guided by a kind of Joe's ghost, Jay leaves London and moves to a little rural village in France where he buys an abandoned farm and where he starts writing again, inspired by his mysterious neighbour, Marisa. Home brewed wine made by Joe takes unusual importance in the present time of the story, because it's only when Jay drinks it that he finds the courage to change what makes him unhappy. The novel moves forward and backwards in time, and the reader is able to know young Jay, when he meets Joe, an eccentric old man who leaves a deep impression in lonely Jay, becoming his special friend and his secret hideaway. ![]() Show More had been spent in that successful novel. ![]()
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