![]() ![]() ![]() Only the Captain is kind to him, and promises that if Jack saves his life thrice, he'll reveal the boy's true parentage. He picks the wrong ship: the Charming Molly is taken by pirates before Jack's even crawled out of his hiding place, and he finds himself at the mercy of a cutthroat bunch. Jack Holborn is a foundling - named for the London parish in which St Bride's, the church where he was found, stands - who runs away to sea as soon as he's old enough. Pirates! Swashbuckling! A Heyeresque plot of mistaken identity and last-minute reprieves! And I probably wouldn't have appreciated it then as much as I do now. I liked some of Garfield's other books (especially the retellings of Greek mythology that he wrote with Edward Blishen, for instance The God Beneath the Sea) but Jack Holborn never tempted me. This is another of the books that I remember always being on the shelf in our local library when I was growing up: right next to Moonfleet, it was, and it had a dark, rather offputting cover. ![]()
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