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The Hopkins Family Saga #4
High Hopes
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 GBP300 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'?
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512 pages, Paperback
First published August 3, 2000
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August 6, 2015
Billy is a young teenager in Manchester, England during 1945. After the war is over, he is a student at a teacher college in London. His first job is in a school in Manchester. He has a challenging class but is able to be innovative and develop what would be considered at the time a revolutionary approach towards teaching his class. The story is referred to as a fictionalized autobiography. Life after the war was still challenging as it took a number of years for England to recover. I found it an interesting and engaging story.
February 25, 2019
A charming story of family life and love
This is a beautiful story of days gone by: the challenges and simplicity. It tells of a family's love for one another, Billy's love of teaching and the first steps of a life long love.
This is a beautiful story of days gone by: the challenges and simplicity. It tells of a family's love for one another, Billy's love of teaching and the first steps of a life long love.
March 25, 2014
Brilliant, absolutely loved it, it's funny, witty and tearful - a feel good book
July 13, 2015
I didn't enjoy this book. I found it hard to relate to and I struggled to get through it.
July 19, 2021
Good read
Another good book and looking forward to reading the next one in the series. Would recommend these books to everyone who likes family stories.
Another good book and looking forward to reading the next one in the series. Would recommend these books to everyone who likes family stories.
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