"‘I want to go backwards.’ He said, but the words never left his mouth.

When Jack loses his vision on the motorway, the car spins to a halt and he is left blind and helpless. So begins his slow descent into sensory numbness with a disease that no doctor can understand. When he can no longer feel the touch of his son's finger on his palm he imagines the movie of his life to stay tethered to his mind, but eventually he catches up with himself. Darkness takes over.

But where does he go? And who are all these Jacks that merge into one another?

Who is Jack?

Jacks is a novel in variations, funny, poetic, scary and tightly written, it delves into the darker side of life in the twenty-first century and sends back messages to the surface in bubbles.