We follow Jack Burns from an early age and on into maturity. As a child he is taken by his Scottish mother from Canada to tour Europe in search of his father who had deserted his mother. On his return to Canada we follow him through school, college and eventually into his career as an actor. But it is not until his mother dies that he begins the search of his own for his father, and what he discovers is very different from what he remembers from when he was a child.
Until I Find You is an involving novel, and one needs a good memory for many of the characters we meet in the early pages will reappear in one way or another much later, one also needs to remember events for we may well get a different slant on them as the story unfolds. But of course it is Jack that we follow throughout; and as a child he is a bright and endearing, but he may well loose some of our affections as he grows up for he is not always best behaved, but I am sure that if you stick with him and understand what made him he will reclaim your feelings, for ultimately this is a very touching and moving read, and Jack really does come out of it with honours.
Along the way we encounter an array of those characters beloved by Irving, the misfits, the mis-formed, the eccentrics and those on the borders of acceptable society, as well as some truly caring individuals; there really are those who are watching over Jack for his welfare.
It all adds up to a typically engrossing Irving novel, humour and wit intermingle with passages that are moving or touched with sadness or even tragedy. Never predictable but ever inventive, and of course beautifully written as one would expect from Irving, it all makes for a very worthy read.
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