The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins - 431 sales @ October 2014
Edward Jarvis Huggins is a ten year old boy brought up in a shack in eighteenth century England, his father an alcoholic, his mother dead.
Fleeing their father, Edward and his sister find themselves in Kent, on a farm peopled by other restless souls who have arrived at that same place over the previous ten years for reasons unknown to them.
Edward is convinced that he is the re-incarnation of Jesus, the returning Messiah, the son of God. Could it be that he really has been sent to earth to save mankind or is he just a troubled little boy who talks to the moon and the stars?
The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins is a novel of courage, humour, and destiny.
This novel is in the Magical Realism/Literary Fiction genre. It is not therefore either traditional historical fiction or traditional romantic fiction - it's just a bit toowonderful for either.
Fleeing their father, Edward and his sister find themselves in Kent, on a farm peopled by other restless souls who have arrived at that same place over the previous ten years for reasons unknown to them.
Edward is convinced that he is the re-incarnation of Jesus, the returning Messiah, the son of God. Could it be that he really has been sent to earth to save mankind or is he just a troubled little boy who talks to the moon and the stars?
The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins is a novel of courage, humour, and destiny.
This novel is in the Magical Realism/Literary Fiction genre. It is not therefore either traditional historical fiction or traditional romantic fiction - it's just a bit toowonderful for either.