Mathias Malzieu: The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart [2009] hardback Condition:Very Good Wonderful writing

Wonderful writing

This innovative book breaks the impasse by looking at how participants themselves exert power

in terms of the sheer scale of the conquests

this story of the nanny savant has blinded us to Maier's true achievements

a compromise

Mathias Malzieu: The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart [2009] hardback Condition:Very Good Wonderful writingEdinburgh, 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen, Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life saving operation. But Dr Madeleine is no conventional medic and surgically implants a cuckoo clock into his chest. Little Jack grows up different to other children: every day begins with a daily wind up. At school he is bullied for his 'ticking', but Dr Madeleine reminds him he must resist strong emotion: anger is far