The Second World War is over, and London is getting back on its feet. But the rationing is not over, and for ten-year-old Billy Brown this means business. It's the perfect time for a mischievous boy with ambition and imagination... Left to his own devices with both his parents at work, Billy scours the bombsites and the markets, finds a Saturday job at a scrap metal yard, and sells everything from bricks to horse muck. Billy paints a heart-warming and nostalgic picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of war.
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