The Day Jack Sacked His Therapist
In 1981, eleven-year-old Jill drags her young brother Jack through a London cemetery until they reach their mother’s gravestone, where she tells Jack that nobody blames him.
But clearly, they do.
Whatever Jack’s childhood crime, it seems to have left him with a strange curse: people around him only feel good about themselves when his life is out of control. Although Marion, his stunning girlfriend, is immune to this hex, even she can’t halt Jack’s decline into fluffy-bearded, drink-sodden dumpiness.
When Marion finally leaves him, Jack resolves to change to win her back, but every attempt he makes to improve himself is met with strong resistance by those around him, especially by his therapist.
Jack’s quest to regain Marion intensifies from the simple target of reducing his beer-gut to remembering what happened on a dark, stormy afternoon in 1978.
