JACK AND MO

<p><strong>Two young men. Two journeys. Two shipwrecks.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>When the discovery of a Saxon sword hilt on an island off Helsinki is announced on the internet Stuart Richardson an unfulfilled museum curator recognises it could be a relic of the Battle of Hastings. But why so far away? If true it would change his life.</p><p><br></p><p>The story unfolds of Jack a 15th century country boy who joins a ship and carries the sword hilt to the Baltic and his 21st century counterpart Mo an asylum seeker who discovers it on a beach cleaning project in Finland.</p><p><br></p><p>Stuart's integrity is challenged as he has to justify the authenticity of the find when it is over a thousand miles from where it should be. His mental health is affected. Or are his symptoms due to a spell cast upon him?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>'A haunting and richly textured novel that shows how the past informs the present. What has been lived may live with us still.'</strong></p><p><strong>Alan Judd award-winning author of <em>A Fine Madness.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>The novel has themes of migration PTSD the repatriation of museum objects and witchcraft. </p><p><br></p>