Cheeky Face

Ten-year-olds Mickey Dripping and his pal Kenny Riley can usually
be found sitting on the top steps of a couple of terraced houses in rainy
Manchester, Pommieland.

The story opens on the day the King died in 1952 and Mickey's chain-smoking
Yantee Minnie (Miss Woodbine 1950) tells the lads that his grannie is dead upset.

Yantee Minnie is a potato peeler by trade (until she tries the role of a burnt cornflake flicker alongside Mickey's dad at Kellogg's ...last five minutes...) and arranges the family Coronation Party in grannie's front room...by invitation only.

Kenny's wayward sister keeps running off with various men ...though upgrades her
activities to include football and rugby teams ...thus bringing new meaning to 'on the game'. His mum, meantime, takes in a few lodgers to help the expenses of caring for 8 kids and a non-working husband.

All sorts of adventures unfold. These include...

• The hunt for the missing budgie.
• The front-room party to celebrate the new Queen ...
and no Kenny.
• A Catholic Priest comes after Mickey's lapsed dad.
• A new telly to watch the Coronation on...well, that
was the intention before Mickey's dad appeared.

... and much more fun...as Mickey plans to become a Pop Singer ...with
Kenny as his 'Manager' and 'Fan Club President'....membership count – nil.

Its a laugh as events like the 'Fake Hypnotist' on the pier in Torquay
are revealed ...as well as Mickey's Yantee Mollie and her never-can-light fire and
cats all called Mitzi.

Mickey gets his head cut open by a brick thrown by a non-friendly neighbour...and
his dad chases a burglar out of their house while holding just a night-light.

It's real...it's true...it's fun...it's different...and it's a good read guaranteed to make the reader smile for a very long time.