Billy Hopkins
'Off to some la-di-dah college ,' said Dad. 'You'll pick up bad ways from them toffs down there. I've read all about their goings-on in the Manchester Evening News/
It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher. Despite his dad's warning, 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'?
Nostalgic, funny and romantic, HIGH HOPES vividly evokes northern life after the Second World War, and will keep you laughing till the very last page.
'A cracking yarn' Warrington Guardian
'How wonderful to have a book like this. A book that. . . pulls the reader back to that different world' Manchester Evening News
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