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Their Language is the Sun
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ISBN10: 1739632230
ISBN13: 9781739632236
Publisher: Minos Press
Published: Aug 10 2025
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781739632236
Publisher: Minos Press
Published: Aug 10 2025
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It is 1966. Five young people are headed for a lifetime in care. But they have other ideas. - Big Greg has written a pop song.
- Beauty girl Helen dreams of love and cooking.
- Gloriana longs to be a poet.
- Mick just wants to win the World Cup.
- And Patch, their fiery leader, intends a better future for them all. It is going to be a titanic struggle against the Rat and wicked Mr Salter and against all the institutional shackles of the time. Yet it's the Sixties. Patch is determined to put the New Man, Richard, to work on his plan. If Richard will just get his mind off the pretty nurse Lizzie. A passionate and deeply amusing story of young people determined to overcome impossible odds.
- Beauty girl Helen dreams of love and cooking.
- Gloriana longs to be a poet.
- Mick just wants to win the World Cup.
- And Patch, their fiery leader, intends a better future for them all. It is going to be a titanic struggle against the Rat and wicked Mr Salter and against all the institutional shackles of the time. Yet it's the Sixties. Patch is determined to put the New Man, Richard, to work on his plan. If Richard will just get his mind off the pretty nurse Lizzie. A passionate and deeply amusing story of young people determined to overcome impossible odds.
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