Publisher's Synopsis
From the best-selling author of "Our Kid" In September 1945 Billy Hopkins sets off to train as a teacher, with only ten bob in his pocket. Despite his dad's misgivings, Billy survives two years in London and returns to take up his first teaching job in Manchester. The only trouble is his class, Senior Four, who bitterly resent the raising of the school leaving age - and decide 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 Laura - but is she, as his dad says, "too good for the likes of us?"
