OUR KID by Billy Hopkins ( 9780755343188 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

OUR KID

By:

Billy Hopkins

Format:

Paperback

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£9.99

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£7.29

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£2.70

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.

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