Until I Find You, John Irving'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast. But her four year old

Katharine's life seems perfect until the birth of her fourth child

having made his fortune at sea

It is phenomenal

The rich boy --

But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened

Two weeks after that

but when it learns to let go

To my children I will sayLet the river break between your lips

She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him

they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom

sex and gambling syndicates from the less than salubrious side of Hong Kong

and there was nothing else to do