Billy’s fifth book ‘Anything Goes’ -
The warm and touching tale of a family growing up in the 1960s.
It's December 1963 when Billy Hopkins and his wife Laura arrive
back home in Manchester, after five years in Africa. The bitter English weather
is a shock, but there are bigger surprises to come, for the world they left
behind has changed beyond recognition. Now, it's the swinging sixties, with
headlines full of the Beatles and the pill, LSD and mini skirts. Traditional
values have been thrown into the melting pot.
As a father of four, Billy might have cause to worry. But his
youngest son still believes in Santa Claus and while his daughter's reading
Jackie, she's not even a teenager yet. Billy's more concerned about the welfare
of his increasingly forgetful father and about the daily (and sometimes
exquisitely humorous) challenges he faces as a college lecturer than about the
impact of modern society on his offspring. When the four junior Hopkins start
to choose their own, unexpected paths in life, though, Billy finds it harder
than usual to see the funny side of things…
ANYTHING GOES brings readers close to a warm and loving family
who somehow get through all their ups and downs the dangerous illness of a
child, the astonishing money-making schemes of enthusiastic youngsters, the
heartbreaking decline of a parent without ever losing their sense of
humour. Nostalgic, witty and at times
sad, ANYTHING GOES is essential reading for everyone who has ever been a
parent, or ever rebelled against their own.
ISBN 978-0-7553-4322-5
All the books are
being republished in B-Format.
All the
books have been published by World Book Club.
All the
books have also been published in large print versions by:
Magna Large
Print Books, North Yorkshire, BD23 4ND.
All the
books have been done on audio cassettes read by:
Christopher
Kay of BBC by Soundings, Kings Drive, Whitley Bay, T & W NE26 2JT.
In the case
of OUR KID, a version on 14 CDs has been produced by the same company
(Soundings).