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Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long

Biography & Autobiography, Mainstream Publishing, Martha Long, Personal Memoirs, Social Services & Welfare, Memoir, Biography Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.
As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems things can't get any worse, her mother meets Jackser.
Despite her trials, Martha is a child with an irrepressible spirit and a wit beyond her years. She tells the story of her early life without an ounce of self-pity and manages to recreate a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.
Martha never stops believing she is worth more than the hand she has been dealt, and her remarkable voice will remain with you long after you've finished the last line.
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Genres and Themes
Biography & Autobiography, Mainstream Publishing, Martha Long, Personal Memoirs, Social Services & Welfare , Memoir, Biography

Condition

Well Read
Pages

477
Language

EN
Publication Date

2008


ISBN

9781845963132
Binding

Paperback
Publisher

Mainstream Publishing
Edition

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