'The most important book of its generation' - Mark Cagney, Morning Ireland'Jewel-like scenes of Dublin' - Sunday Times'Roddy Doyle with Knobs on!' - RTE Guide'Thompson's ability to, by his own admission, write for non-readers, make his books unputdownable' - Tara O'LiaithJohnser Kiely was brought up the hard way, one of a large family in a glass-splattered playground in a Ballyfermot Estate....

'The most important book of its generation' - Mark Cagney, Morning Ireland'Jewel-like scenes of Dublin' - Sunday Times'Roddy Doyle with Knobs on!' - RTE Guide'Thompson's ability to, by his own admission, write for non-readers, make his books unputdownable' - Tara O'LiaithJohnser Kiely was brought up the hard way, one of a large family in a glass-splattered playground in a Ballyfermot Estate....

I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall’s story of his childhood - a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers and tellers of tall stories - a world held precious by the young Alan Marshall.