Jack on the Box

"Jack Trevor Story, writer, eccentric and now star of his own television series, JACK ON THE BOX, is renowned for his idiosyncratic approach to life, his hatred of bureaucracy and his unflagging rejection of the obvious. In this volume of short pieces he lures the reader into his own eclectic and highly personal universe, centred somewhere on the edge of Hampstead Heath, some time in the 1970s, and presided over by the lovely Maggie (and her ghost). Why is Jack falling into the river, fully clothed? Who is Kaiser Konrad and why did he announce his own death by telegram? Will Maggie ever return from Belgium? We can't promise an answer to any of these questions -- but come in and try to find the real Jack Trevor Story, while he tries to find himself! Viewers of JACK ON THE BOX will recognise many of the themes dealt with here, along with the wit, wisdom and sheer presence of Britain's best comic novelist. And for those already familiar with the lives and times of Albert Argyll and Horace Spurgeon Fenton and all the magical characters which have at one time or another moved through the pages of Jack's life, here is a valuable glimpse into the reality of their creator."