Our Kid

Zusatztext Not only is it a heart-rending story, it is a remarkable piece of social history Informationen zum Autor Billy Hopkins (better known to his family and friends as Wilfred Hopkins) was born in Collyhurst in 1928 and attended schools in Manchester. Before going into higher education, he worked as a copy boy for the Manchester Guardian. He later studied at the Universities of London, Manchester and Leeds and was involved in school-teaching and teacher-training in Liverpool, Manchester, Salford and Glasgow. He also worked in African universities in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Billy Hopkins, author, husband and father of six, died aged 83 in 2012. Klappentext Two reissues of Hopkins's fictionalised accounts of his childhood and youth. Vorwort A warm-hearted and powerful story of war, family and hope, OUR KID is the beloved, bestselling family saga based on Billy Hopkins' own experiences growing up in the harsh back streets of Manchester in the 1930s. Zusammenfassung A warm-hearted and powerful story of war, family and hope, OUR KID is the beloved, bestselling family saga based on Billy Hopkins' own experiences growing up in the harsh back streets of Manchester in the 1930s.

Product details

• Authors: Billy Hopkins, Hopkins Billy
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.12.2007
• EAN: 9780755343188
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-4318-8
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Hopkins Family Saga; Hopkins Family Saga
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Saga, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, Family life fiction, Family & relationships, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Generational sagas