Every town should have a ?card? - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a ?card?: Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent 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 hot dinners. The town of Burstey never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
