Our kid
By: Billy Hopkins
Contributors: Lally, Tim, 1928-
Series: Hopkins, Billy, 1928- Billy Hopkins saga -- 1.
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780755343188
Subjects: Social conditions; Poor children; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: as by Tim Lally. Southport: Limited Edition, 1996.