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High Hopes (The Hopkins Family Saga, Book 4): An irresistible tale of northern life in the 1940s
Billy Hopkins
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Description for High Hopes (The Hopkins Family Saga, Book 4): An irresistible tale of northern life in the 1940s
Paperback. The charming tale of a young schoolteacher in the 1940s and 1950s Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Billly Hopkins' delightful novel HIGH HOPES is based on his own experiences as a young teacher in Manchester in the aftermath of war in the 1940s. From the author of OUR KID.
It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher, with only ten bob in his pocket. Despite his dad's gloomy warnings that he'll pick up bad ways from the toffs down South, Billy survives two years in the Big City, and returns to take up his first teaching job in Manchester - on £300 a year!
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Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780755343195
SKU
V9780755343195
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Ref
99-10
About Billy Hopkins
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, ... Read more
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