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Amid slum terraces of Manchester is one boy's season of adventure, maltreatment, crippling poverty, and an come across together with the Moors Murderers. A raw and often funny 12-month snapshot of seven-year-old Tommy's brutal young life. Moving us through his daily struggle with poverty and overlook in 1960s Manchester like it's the most natural part of the earth, Tommy lives at the heart of a big Irish family in derelict Hulme, ruled by an abusive and alcoholic daddy and a drunk, negligent mother. Alongside his siblings he begs for - or steals - a few pennies to buying to his parents and avoid a belting, while looking for something to consume and a little adventure on the way. With an improbable sense of fun and an enormous dosage of good laughter, Tommy introduces us to his foul-mouthed and chaotic family. Deeply flawed they could all be, but amidst the violence, milling poverty, and particular lack of hygiene and morality lays a strong sense of commitment and, most importantly, survival. During this single season - before his family implodes and his world changes permanently - young Tommy falls foul of the school welfare officials, the nuns, the police - and Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. An exciting, fun, dark and moving report of the only life young Tommy realized.
