Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire
Long, Martha2008
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Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950's Dublin, Martha grew up in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. Here she tells the story of her early life and recreates a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.
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Edinburgh : Mainstream, 2008.
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477 p. ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: 2007.
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9781845963132 (pbk)
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English
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BRN:
20919