Gentleman Jim Shelley Parker-Chan Jess is thirteen and she

Jess is thirteen and she already has a reputation - as the daughter of the only communist in town

there are troubling rumours surrounding the man she's about to marry

Ends with a final lap of the ride when you think it is all over

a crackling mystery

God-given power and wiles from a striking new voice in historical fiction

Gentleman Jim Shelley Parker-Chan Jess is thirteen and sheJim's childlike understanding of the world that surrounds him is enhanced by Raymond Briggs's subtle and inventive illustrations. Fantasies are portrayed as organic clouds that move between and overlap outlined panels of his reality, and myopic Jim is drawn smaller and softer than the policemen and bureaucrats interested in impeding his search for adventure. As he begins to infringe more seriously on the law, the city workers and their speech boxes