Terence Sackett

No Crisis for Hut Man Terence Sackett

Unworldly Hut Man, nineteen and a half years old, lives alone in the woods and talks to his Ikea furniture. He thinks hard about life, but invariably fails to understand what is actually going on in his encounters with the outside world. Yet, employing his own unique reasoning, he manages to survive and is always happy and confident. When he finds an inscription in red ink in a book on hamsters at a jumble sale saying 'Please return to Helen Jacobs, 31 Riverside Close, Budleigh Salterton' he has to obey, and heads off on his bike to find her with Ken the plastic iguana on the handlebars. He has puzzling and ludicrous encounters buying a mobile phone and camping equipment, ordering an Indian takeaway, working in a lay by as an abstract artist, being tattooed, and getting arrested for being in possession of a firearm. When he finally tracks Helen down he finds her to be very different from the girl he expected. But it's no crisis.