Jack Bennet and the key to all things

Jack Bennet is a ten-year-old like many others. One morning, while going to work, Jack meets a curious character that seems to have come out of nowhere; the man gives him a key, “a master key to open any lock”. Jack starts travelling through unknown and bizarre worlds, which he has to handle on behalf of the “Father of all things”. With echoes from Alice in Wonderland and a touch of Dickens, Fiore Manni's quirky novel is set in a London of times past. Over 17 chapters, short and well-paced, Jack Bennet e la chiave di tutte le cose (Jack Bennet and the key to all things) narrates Jack's incredible learning experience as he crosses transdimensional portals looking for treasure. Thus, amid fantastical animals, wild beasts, old sages and huge galleons, Jack lives the greatest, most exciting adventures, thanks to which he succeeds in escaping from his daily life, with its homework and the responsibilities weighing on his shoulders – above all, from an adult-like life that seems to be crushing his innocence, obliterating the best years a child his age can have. Fiore Manni's flowing and gentle style tells a coming-of-age story with much tenderness and irony, as well as love and imagination.

Jack Bennet e la Chiave di tutte le cose (Jack Bennet and the key to all things)
by Fiore Manni
Rizzoli, 2018