Books by Walter Greenwood

Jack Hardacre comes home on leave after three years in the army to find Milly, a pretty Londoner, billeted with his mother. He is immediately attracted, but becomes increasingly wretched because he has been trapped into an engagement by Janey Jenkins. Janey, strongly supported by her mother, is determined to hold him to it. Jack must also contend with Milly's other admirer, Joe Truman. Half distracted, Jack asks beery old Mrs Dorbell for a cure for love. She tells him – get married. Finally, at the height of a furious argument with Joe, Janey and Mrs Jenkins, Jack abruptly announces that the child Milly is carrying is his.| 6 women, 5 men

Walter Greenwood's depiction of a northern town in the midst of the thirties' depression.

In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. Sally, meanwhile, falls in love with Larry Meath, a self-educated Marxist.