Jack Maggs

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 328. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper design based on the painting 'Liverpool Quay by Moonlight' by Atkinson Grimshaw.

Author's sixth novel. A foundling cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia for thievery, returns to 1830's England, despite the imminent threat of execution, bend on vengeance and reconciliation. Peter Carey's imaginative reworking of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Winner of the 1988 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It also won Carey the 1997 [Melbourne] Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction as well as his third Miles Franklin Award in 1998. "A master of storytelling." –Sunday Times