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Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 10.67At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever. Before long, Martha is on the way to leading the normal life she has so long dreamt of. She makes friends,... more...
Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 10.67In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up. In Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed , she leads us through her first months of freedom. With no home to go to, Martha... more...
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 16.01Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on. As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call... more...
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 10.67Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that she is to get an education. Her initial relief at escaping the abuse and neglect she suffered... more...
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars
Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 10.67After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show Martha true love and affection. But their relationship threatened his vocation and he eventually... more...
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 10.67Born 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... more...
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
Seven Stories Press 2012; US$ 26.95When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only thing keeping food on the table. Jackser is a master of paranoid anger... more...
Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone
Mainstream Publishing 2013; US$ 17.34I step in through the heavy doors of the old city hospital and plunge back in time. Jaysus, the sounds, smells, peeling paint! Nothing's changed here since I first used this place as a homeless sixteen year old. Now, the creep who put me there, somewhere down along these ancient passages he is lying shivering and shaking in a bed of pain. Well,... more...
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