Tuppence Ha'penny Is a Nickel Paperback - 2010

Name: Tuppence Ha'penny is a Nickel
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Author: Francis X Atherton
ISBN: 9781550051940

by Francis X. Atherton

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This is the story of Alice Heffernon, whose life as a well brought up young Engnlishwoman is utterly transformed by her marriage. Here, too, is the story of her adventurous and restless husband, Joe Atherton, athlete, actor, printer, journalist, publisher and pioneer. Together with their children, the abandon the comforts of England to begin a new life and build a new society in the Canadian West. A joyful and exuberant chronicle of a time and a way of life long gone.

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Title Tuppence Ha'penny Is a Nickel
Author Francis X. Atherton
Binding Paperback
Pages 258
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Date 2010-11
ISBN 9781550051940 / 1550051946
Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
Dimensions 6 x 8.9 x 0.3 in (15.24 x 22.61 x 0.76 cm)
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Francis X. Atherton, youngest son of J. J. Atherton and Alice Heffernon, was born in Creston, British Columbia at the tail end of his father s rollicking career as a newspaper publisher. The "Creston Review "is the only paper founded by the elder Atherton that survives to this day.
The author moved with his family to Calgary and to Vancouver where, at age sixteen, he quit school and launched a lifelong career in the auto industry. Employed first as a salesman and then in automotive parts, he worked for International Harvester, Studebaker and Volvo Canada Limited, in Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto.
When he retired from Volvo as Central Canada Regional Manager, in 1977, he had already begun researching the novel that would be based on his parents life together. Atherton died in December 1986, a few months before publication of "Tuppence
Ha Penny Is A Nickel, "but not without completing the first draft of a sequel, which follows the family through the turbulent years of the First World War. He is survived by Eileen, his wife of forty years, and by five children."