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OUR KID
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| By: |
Billy Hopkins |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0755343182 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780755343188 |
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| Publisher: |
HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
27 December, 2007 |
| Pages: |
528 |
| Description: |
The warm-hearted and nostalgic tale of a boy's life: from the 1920s Manchester slums, through tough times as an evacuee during WWII, to the challenges of the post-war world for a hard-up family. Not to be missed by readers of Kate Thompson and Maureen Lee. |
| Synopsis: |
Billy Hopkins' OUR KID, the first of his novels based on his experiences growing up in Manchester, has delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. 'How wonderful to have a book like this...A glimpse of a lost reality' Manchester Evening News It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance. Billy's tenement home on the outskirts of Manchester would be considered a slum today, but he lived there happily with his large Catholic family, hatching money-making schemes with his many friends. When war came, and the Luftwaffe dominated the night sky, Billy was evacuated to Blackpool. There he lived on a starvation diet while his own rations went to feed his landlady's children - 'I might as well be in Strangeways!' But even the cruel blows that were to be dealt to the family on his return to Manchester would not destroy Billy's fighting spirit - or his sense of humour. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Headline Book Publishing |
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