Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about,someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes youlaugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin(Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where therent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hotdinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whateverwill young Denry do next?
