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A Hopscotch Summer by Annie Murray (Paperback, 2013)
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In 1930s Birmingham, in the impoverished district of Nechells, a young girl bravely endeavours to hold her family together in trying times. A Hopscotch Summer is an emotional journey of determination and resilience from Annie Murray. Emma Brown is a young girl whose usual cheerful spirit is challenged when her household welcomes a new baby. Her mother, Cynthia, is losing herself. Her father, Bob, takes solace in alcohol. Experiencing the hard slap of reality early in life, Emma tries to maintain the household and keep everyone's spirits up. But soon it seems that the only thing to do is for Cynthia to go and stay with her tyrannical older sister across the city.
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Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham. As long as everything is alright at home with her Ma and Pa, her little sister Joyce and brother Sid, then life is good. But after Em's mother Cynthia has her baby she just doesn't seem to be able to cope. Her life-long friend and neighbour Dot helps as much as she can, but she has children of her own, and no man to hand; Cynthia's husband Bob, too, does his best, but begins to feel that he's losing the wife he has loved so much; and little Em just can't find enough hours in the day to do all the washing and cleaning. Soon, it seems, the only thing is for Cynthia to go and stay across the city with her tyrannical older sister. With Cynthia away, life only gets harder for Em. Her best friend Kate ostracises her, leaving only poor, stinky Molly Fox at her side, and when the Board Man comes to call, wanting to know why she's not at school, things are really bad. When Bob stays out later and later in the evenings, always the worse for wear, and spending too much time with a local very merry widow, Em decides to travel across Birmingham to fetch her mother home, but the mother she discovers is a far cry from the proud, upright and loving figure she has known so well...Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139781447232469
eBay Product ID (ePID)148973304
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Hopscotch Summer
AuthorAnnie Murray
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGenealogy
Publication Year2013
Number of Pages416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height197mm
Item Width130mm
Item Weight286g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAnnie Murray
Series TitleHopscotch Summer
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 18 Jun, 2020
Love reading books.
With lockdown had to get some reading books to keep my mind occupied. Thank you.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Dec, 2016
Loved this book! follow up is All the days of our Lives which I have just bought Annie Murray at her best!
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- 04 Sep, 2024
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