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Edinburgh, 1874. Delivered with a frozen heart, Jack port is nearly dead when his mother abandons him to the treatment of Dr. Madeleine witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans who will save Jack by positioning a cuckoo clock in his chest. It really is in her orphanage that Jack port grows up, amid tear-filled flasks, eggs including memories, and a man with a musical spinal column. Dr. Madeleine warns Jack port that his heart and soul is too delicate for strong feelings: he must never, ever show up in love. But of course, he will, on his tenth birthday, and with head-over-heels abandon, for a bespectacled young block performer with a soul-stirring words. But it s not only Jack port s heart and soul that s in danger, it s his very life. Now commences a wild quest of get away from and quest, from Edinburgh to Paris to Andalusia, where Jack port will finally learn the fantastic joys and the greater costs of owning a fully formed heart and soul.
