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High Hopes (The Hopkins Family Saga, Book 4): An irresistible tale of northern life in the 1940s
Billy Hopkins
Hopkins Family Saga, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Second World War fiction, Sagas, Historical fiction
HIGH HOPES and Billy Hopkins' other early titles are all being reissued in B-format - an exercise guaranteed to generate extra sales on his already very successful titles.
The charming tale of a young schoolteacher in the 1940s and 1950s is reissued with an updated cover.
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! The catch is his first class, Senior Four, who bitterly resent the raising of the school leaving age, and are all set to take it out on their teacher - luckily the kid from Collyhurst has some tricks up his sleeve. And Billy's about to fall in love with the beautiful Laura. But is she, as his dad says, 'too good for the likes of us'?
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, 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.
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