Smythe's Theory of everything

Smythe's Theory of Everything Hybrid Publishers 2011 Paperback

	Following his highly successful novel They called me The Wildman comes Hollingworth's much-awaited new book Smythe's Theory of Everything In 2004 the author found a little diary of 386 pages written by a 62 year old man in a nursing home. This story is inspired by that diary. Read an online review Interview on Radio National Read an extract

Hollingworth continues his exploration of the voice seldom heard in this moving tale about youth, aging and self-redemption.

E=mc2? Jack Smythe thinks Einstein is wrong and he has a theory to prove it. But he's no physicist. Instead, he's been a homeless kid, a palmreader, a cosmic theorist, a father of two (who probably aren't his) and a devoted companion to his sister Kitty who has her own demons. But now at 62, he wakes after an operation to find he's been placed at Eden, a below-average nursing home.
Here he is confronted by Nurse Stinson, Collier the Hun, Pistol Pete, Skeleton Joe, Dooley the publican, Jim the ex-politician and Jim's rebel granddaughter, among others. He wants nothing to do with any of them.

Instead, with wry wit Jack begins a story about Kitty starting with the day they ran away from home for good. It seems Jack is always running away and ultimately there's a daring escape at the nursing home. But unknown to Jack, it's the "muddle of geriatrics" at Eden that will eventually put meaning in his life.
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