![]() This character is a kitchen maid at the estate. She oversees the protagonist and the other servants of the household. This character is the head maid at the estate on Great Queen Street. ![]() This character is the cook at the estate on Great Queen Street where the protagonist works as a footman. Carey just ‘wants to make your flesh creep,’ and he’s done a rattling. Tobias Nicks is a young but celebrated writer. Jack Maggs is full of cruelty, goodness, merriment and terror, mysterious inheritances, plot-driving coincidences and sharp-eyed generalizations about segments of the endlessly proliferating human species. Having grown up largely together as orphans, she and the protagonist were used in the thieving exploits of their captors. Jack Maggs is a convict returned from Australia. ![]() This character was the protagonist’s childhood sweetheart. He evades the protagonist throughout the novel. This character lives on Great Queen Street, in a home given him by his benefactor. ![]() ![]() This thrilling and original story, part historical novel and part literary fantasy, is one of the most exciting, erudite, and compulsively readable works of fiction to come along in recent years. He returns to London illegally, after having been granted a conditional pardon in Australia, where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life for the crime of robbery. This guide is intended to enrich your experience reading Peter Careys Jack Maggs. ![]()
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