A Load Of Old Tripe

The Sunday Times best-selling author... For eleven-year-old James Joseph Johnson (Jimmy for short) life is not always straightforward. Born in 1946, Jimmy lives with his mum and dad in a terraced house in South Yorkshire, near the steel works. In the year leading up to their eleven-plus, Jimmy and his friends Ignatius Plunkett and Micky get into a few scrapes - but will they come out on top? Will the truth about the trip to buy dad's tripe ever be found out? What really happens to his mum's coffee and walnut cake? And will Jimmy survive a week looking after Butch, the temperamental, barrel-bodied bull terrier?