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Escapees (from this old world that’s getting them down, that is) will find GOING PLACES is effectively split into two parts in this respect. The first section of the book deals with the joys and vicissitudes of family life in mid-twentieth-century Manchester – as readers have perhaps come to expect after reading Billy Hopkins previous three books - whilst the latter part of the story tells of the young family’s exotic life experience in faraway Kenya as the country celebrates incipient nationhood in the aftermath of the Mau Mau emergency.
This quite startling locational juxtaposition in the narrative makes for a really lively and refreshing read, where the Kenyan section of GOING PLACES proves to be a world of fresh wonder, particularly when contrasted with the dour austerity of the Land Fit for Heroes the Hopkins’ family has left behind.
But how wonderful it is too to step aboard Dr Hopkins’ time machine once again to be whisked away to a more innocent time in our lives, where the bleak midwinter provides us with ration books, utility marks, and queues for coal bricks – but with warmth and comfort too in a land where (to paraphrase Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers) ‘lovers await their wedding day’, and – on a more sombre note – qualifications for, experience in, and ability to do a job of work are still a much more effective surety of advancement within one’s chosen career than the whimsy and diktat of quotidian political correctness.
A word of warning though!
Once he’s whisked you away with him in his Time Machine, Dr Hopkins will insist on operating without anaesthetic. He’s qualified too to tackle your tear ducts as well as your “chuckle muscles”. And, just occasionally, you’ll find he’s opted to implant a lump in your throat.
No you may NOT have a pre-med! Unless by that you mean a stopover in Rome!
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