Boarding school bullies finally meet their match when scholarship rat Tom inherits a mystical family heirloom. What would you do with magic at your fingertips? The Jiggery Stick can make you invisible, paralyse your opponents, erase their memories and even send cricket balls far from their projected path. The Jiggery Stick is the perfect antidote for life's nastier characters. And it is the perfect inheritance for a schoolboy as he comes of age in war-torn Britain of the 1940s. Preventing bank robberies and landing the bullies in hot water is all in a day's work for our Tom. It's capers galore as the victim turns the tables at Beastleigh Hall. While we may not all have Jiggery Sticks to fight back against the bullies, we can all take a crumb of comfort from Ian Harrison's hilarious and, at times, though-provoking new novel.