Independence and family drama both at play in this story

'These characters make up an adventure worth telling, and reading'

IN a break from my reading of classics still relevant to the experiences of young people today, a new story came to my attention, one set in a somehow familiar future. To describe Jackson’s Journey as part political comedy about the possibilities of an independent Scotland and part deeply human drama about family and growing up would not do justice to how perfectly balanced these two genresthemes are.

The novel follows him through the events that force him out of the codependent complacency of his parents’ Edinburgh home and into a transformative journey which comes in a large and public scale no-one expected, posing the question: can he help his country and himself at once? This story forces its main character to come to terms with this truth and reconcile his own problems and ego with what has to be done on a highly publicised journey from Edinburgh to the Isle of Eigg as part of the First Minister’s plan to open Highland ownership to the country’s youth. Yet to allow the world believe in the young people, this young person has to learn to believe in himself first – beyond the fleeting validation of online fame.

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