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Billy Hopkins

It was on a Sunday night in 1928 that Billy Hopkins made his first appearance, while his father, who had already welcomed five children into the world, downed pints of Boddington’s in the pub. 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 moneymaking schemes with his many friends. As Billy grew up, under the strict eye of his father and the firm discipline of teachers who did not always fully appreciate Billy’s sense of humour, the names Hitler and Mussolini were becoming ominously familiar to all.

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 here too he enjoyed his first romance – considerably more straightforward than those that were to follow!

Even the cruel blows that were to be dealt to the family on his return to Manchester would not destroy Billy’s fighting spirit.

Our Kid is a delightful evocation of a northern boyhood. Nostalgic, sad and funny, it recalls an upbringing and an environment now vanished.

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 2009
Editorial Headline
Categoría Biografías y Memorias


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