About the Book: Mr Mac and Me
It is 1914, and Thomas Maggs, the son of the local publican, lives with his
parents and sister in a village on the Suffolk coast. He is the youngest child,
and the only son surviving. Life is quiet - shaped by the seasons, fishing and
farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come down from the Highlands
every year to gut and pack the herring.
Then one day a mysterious Scotsman arrives. To Thomas he looks for all the world
like a detective, in his black cape and hat of felted wool, and the way he puffs
on