![]() ![]() ![]() Now begins a wild journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Andalusia, where Jack will finally learn the great joys-and the greater costs-of owning a fully formed heart. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more. But it's not only Jack's heart that's at risk, it's his very life. Synopsis About this title FIRSTLY: don’t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. But of course, he does, on his tenth birthday, and with head-over-heels abandon, for a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. Knopf, 22. Madeleine warns Jack that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. BUY THIS BOOK The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart Mathias Malzieu. It is in her orphanage that Jack grows up, amid tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine. Madeleine-witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans-who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near dead when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. ![]()
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