The Green Leaves of Nottingham Author:Pat McGrath This book is a compelling story of young people living in the squalor of a modern industrial town. The hero, Jamie Howe, has just returned home to a shabby street in Nottingham in the Midlands after two years in reform school. His parents don't want him, his friends prefer to forget him and his enemies still bear old grudges. The authorities... more » find him a job in a factory but before he begins work he meets another ex-reform school boy and goes downhill from there.
Written by the author when he was just 14 years old.« less