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Tom Kipper's Schooldays: Memories of an Irish Childhood in Liverpool - Peter Sale

Description: ISBN 0755336771 / Author: Peter Sale / Genre: Fiction / Publisher: Headline Book Publishing / NAB END "meetsOUR"KID meets BREAD in this ... more

Tom Kipper's Schooldays: Memories of an Irish Childhood in Liverpool - Peter Sale ... nostalgic, funny and poignant account of growing up in Liverpool during the Second World War Meet Tom Kipper, Espionage Agent Extraordinaire. Born into a poor Irish family in Liverpool in 1928, Tom Kipper is ten years old and full of mischief. A pupil at Saint Joseph's Academy of Hard Knocks (as the kids call it), he spends his days dodging Spiderlady McCann's vicious pencil and engaging in a good scrap when school's out. But the arrival of war will shake Tom's world, bringing loss, confusion and further adventure!

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... Liverpool Irish, that had settled in Liverpool after the potato blight in the mid nineteenth century, hence earning them the nickname of "Scousers". Whole areas were inhabited by the L.I's, giving them a whole new sense of community. The book is set in the years leading up to 1939, Tom is part of a typical Liverpool Irish family, his mother is hardworking, trying to scrape together enough money to live but only managing to pull in enough to dine on mashed potato's every day. Tom's father is unemployed, which compa...more

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Tom Kipper's Schooldays: Memories of an Irish Childhood in Liverpool - Peter Sale: Tom Kipper, not a red herring! (546 words)
by - written on 29/04/08 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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Every now and then Asda has a terrific sale on new books, cd's and dvd's, all the books on sale are available for the princely sum of £1.00. So of course when these sales come around I try to purchase a couple of books that I maybe wouldn't have read before, this is how I ended reading this little gem! The book I will now review is "Tom Kipper's schooldays - memories of an Irish childhood in Liverpool". The book is a semi biographical story of the authors (Peter Sale), childhood. Tom Kipper is a mischievous ten year, born into a charming Irish family living in Liverpool, all good Catholics and all as poor as church ... Read the complete review

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