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Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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 thing ...Show more
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aged 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 e ...Show more
Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed by Martha Long
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the third installment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her parents and the establishment, Martha is now sixteen, her time at the convent school is up. In "Ma, It's a Cauld Aul Night and I'm Lookin for a Bed", she leads us through her first months of ...Show more
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House by Martha Long
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Martha 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 bri ...Show more
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Madhouse by Martha Long
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Martha 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 bri ...Show more
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars by Martha Long
32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Never again will I let myself plunge so low, it nearly cost my life then ended in the mad house,' Martha vows, as she sits back in the taxi wrapping the fur coat around her. A young Russian monk from the mental hospital has proposed marriage. Then she receives a shock. A letter from Father Ralph Fitzge ...Show more
Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone by Martha Long
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old man and realises with a shock that he seems to regret his earlier actions. During her vigil, she is joined ...Show more
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World by Martha Long
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At 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 lif ...Show more
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