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The (Almost) True Story of a Man Called Jack

出版	Artistry Publishing, 2020
ISBN	04735339879780473533984
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5NXlzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A fictionalised memoir about the author's father John Frederick Lingard Fowlds, the story recounts Jack McPhee's life through the 1950s and 1960s with his family in Silverstream, in the Hutt Valley north of Wellington. The McPhees live in a dilapidated old villa, which would, in today's terms, be known as 'the worst house in the best street'. Thigh-high weeds are the garden, crazed concrete is the front yard. The four children share the one bedroom and the parents sleep in the lounge. But Jack has a plan to renovate. Jack always has a plan. He tries his hand at sign-writing, singing, acting and art. He is funny, playful, and just loves life. But he is also hard-working; running bookstalls, bookshops and a travelling library during his short life. The (almost) true story of a man called Jack, will likely make you laugh, and cry, but it is certainly going to wish that you had known the man called Jack.