6. La Mécanique du Coeur
This book has its own soundtrack which is a bit special.
It's about a boy born in my very own town of Edinburgh on the coldest day ever in the year 1874. His heart is really weak so this midwife on top of Arthur's Seat makes him a sort of pacemaker from wood and needles and stuff. She tells him he can never fall in love, because his heart couldn't stand all the emotion. But he does, with a little Spanish singer. He ends up puncturing his love rival's eye in a sort of fight and has to run away from the police, so he goes to Andalucia to find the girl. On his way he meets Jack the Ripper and George Méliès. As you do.
I loved this story. It was cute and magical and imaginative and sort of old-fashioned. It wasn't brilliantly written, but it was still very nice. I don't know if the author has ever actually been to Edinburgh though, because he seemed to think you can run up and down Arthur's Seat in five minutes. This is very wrong.
Very nice. Lovely, lovely, nice, lovely, nice.
Apparently they're making a film with Luc Besson. Tim Burton or Jean-Pierre Jeunet would have been better.
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