As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of ``Jackapple Joe`` Cox.
Impulsively, he decides to leave his urban life in London and,.
His bestselling novel, Jackapple Joe, was published ten years earlier and he has written nothing since.
Years later, Jay\'s life is stalled with regret and ennui.
The magic was lost, however, when Joe disappeared without warning one fall.
A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe\'s simple wisdom and folk charms.
As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of ``Jackapple Joe`` Cox