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 Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?


每個城鎮都該有張「卡」，有些人談論著，有些人做了瘋狂又美妙的事情，還有人讓你大笑。位於五鎮的Bursley有張卡─Edward Henry Machin¬¬(簡稱Denry)。Denry租了一間窮酸的小房子，一個月租金23便士。在他30歲錢，他賺了好多錢，經歷過的冒險比你我吃過的晚餐還要多。Bursley小鎮從不間斷的討論他，究竟年輕的Denry接下來會做出什麼事呢？