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Jacqueline Edgington

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Children's, Self Help, Young Adult

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Born in London, England, Jacqueline acquired a love for travel and followed the sun to finally settle in sunny Florida where she lives with her husband. Her near-daughter, grandchildren and great granddaughter play nearby. Happy Jack is her debut novel and portrays the challenges of abandonment and growing up in a children’s home. Styled as a children’s book, this inspiring story observes familiar struggles felt in today’s world.

HAPPY JACK BOOK REVIEW

"In this debut novel, a lonely little boy travels through strange lands in an odyssey of self-discovery.

Two years after Jack was abandoned by his parents at age 7, he is in yet another children’s home. Sad, angry, and isolated, Jack is bullied at school; his only friend is a battered toy dog na Born in London, England, Jacqueline acquired a love for travel and followed the sun to finally settle in sunny Florida where she lives with her husband. Her near-daughter, grandchildren and great granddaughter play nearby. Happy Jack is her debut novel and portrays the challenges of abandonment and growing up in a children’s home. Styled as a children’s book, this inspiring story observes familiar struggles felt in today’s world.

HAPPY JACK BOOK REVIEW

"In this debut novel, a lonely little boy travels through strange lands in an odyssey of self-discovery.

Two years after Jack was abandoned by his parents at age 7, he is in yet another children’s home. Sad, angry, and isolated, Jack is bullied at school; his only friend is a battered toy dog named Ivanhoe; and he is tormented by dreams of a terrifying monster, sparked by the spiky branches of a looming monkey puzzle tree outside his bedroom window. One night, a cotton-stuffed monkey mysteriously appears, brings Ivanhoe to life, and tells Jack that “Satya, the dreamer of all dreams,” has the answer to his recurring nightmares. Joined by loyal Ivanhoe, now able to speak, as a supportive friend, Jack finds himself moving through shifting dreamscapes on a quest to reach the “quiet place,” where Satya dwells. The boy’s experiences in peculiar lands include a ride on the “Mindless Express,” where he nearly loses himself playing video games. Before Jack makes his empowering discovery of just who or what Satya is, he will learn not to run away from his feelings, to tame his stress-inducing “monkey mind,” to change a negative perspective by exercising forgiveness and kindness, and to trust himself to be his “own best friend.” Edgington, a yoga teacher, describes her engaging novel as an “adult allegory” “styled as a children’s book.” There is a great deal of imaginative storytelling on display here, and kids will undoubtedly enjoy Jack’s eventful journey and happy ending. Among the numerous odd characters that the hero encounters are “mountain lyings”—furry creatures that collect and frolic with all the lies people tell themselves and others—a discarded Christmas ornament who is sick of the holiday, and an ogre who embodies Jack’s worst fears. But this is fundamentally and unapologetically a self-help book whose child-centric plot exists solely as the framework for heartfelt lessons about self-realization and self-acceptance that should resonate with older, stressed-out readers despite the juvenile setting.

An inventive children’s fantasy whose earnest messages about cultivating emotional health through mindfulness target adults." - Kirkus Reviews ...more

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“You have to face your nightmares, Jack. You have to unpack them like you would open up a gift. You must take your nightmares out of the box you’ve stuffed them into so you can learn what are lies and what is the truth.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: dreams, gifts-of-the-spirit, nightmares, truth-and-lies

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“Look into the pool of water, Jack. That’s where the lies disappear. They can’t live in the water because water is transparent. That is where truth is revealed.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: conscience, philosophical-musings, revelation-of-self, transparency, truth-and-lies

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“You have to be a best friend to yourself. If you hate yourself then everyone else will see that and they won’t like you either. You have to be your own best friend. You can rely on yourself, Jack. You can trust yourself. That’s the secret. When you blame everyone else for your bad luck, it takes away your power to help yourself.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: empowerment, friendship-quotes, positive-attitude, self-reliance, trust-yourself

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“We are all part of something mysteriously wonderful. Within each of us lies the key to write our own story and create our unique reality.”
― Jacqueline Edgington

tags: courage-to-be-oneself, creationism, empowering, inspirational

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“If you cannot remember your dreams, then you cannot find the good things.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: dreams-inspirational, past-and-future

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“Where are we. it’s easy to see. As quick as a blink, we are where we think”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: consciousness-quotes, creation, inspirational-quotes, power-of-the-mind, reality-of-life, thinking-quotes

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“And whether you fall in or dive in, it’s good to get wet now and again. If you never got wet, you’d never learn how to swim.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: courage-quotes, inspirational-attitude, swim-quotes

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“Tis good to laugh. Yer gotta laugh and laugh out loud,” said the leprechaun. “You can cry if you want to but laughin’s better.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

tags: feelings-and-emotions, humour, laughter-is-the-best-medicine

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