Publisher's Synopsis
"I prattled away and enthused and extolled the wonders of the library and this new experience all the way home. It changed my life, for it was a new interest with an infinite capability for progression and pleasure." Liverpool, April 1932. England is out of work. The mills are silent, and in the river, ships are rusting at anchor. The king is ageing and his successor remains unmarried. In Germany Adolf Hitler has come to power. Jack's childhood was spent in a bustling dockside pub in the roughest, toughest part of the city with an early introduction to the school of hard knocks. Lawless, tribal and violent, but also exciting, humorous and generous. Bonded by poverty, few had much, but nobody died alone.
