Tom Kipper's schooldays
Subtitle: memories of an Irish childhood in Liverpool
By: Peter Sale
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780750528054
Subjects: Irish fiction; Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Born into a poor Irish family in Liverpool in 1928, Tom Kipper is ten years old and full of mischief. A pupil at Saint Joseph's Academy of Hard Knocks (as the kids call it), he spends his days dodging Spiderlady McCann's vicious pencil and engaging in a good scrap when school's out. But the arrival of war will shake Tom's world, bringing loss, confusion and further adventure!
Notes: Originally published: as A river of Scouse. U.S. Xulon, 2006; London: Headline Review, 2007.