Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh.
Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
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1. The dance
2. The rent collector and the Widow Hullins
3. The dancing teacher and the furniture van
4. Saved by a strom
5. The resuce of the Countess
6. The battle with Denry's mother
7. The mayor, the wife, and the football club
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