Ma I Ve Got Meself Locked Up In The Mad House
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Ma I Ve Got Meself Locked Up In The Mad House
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-12-02
Ma I Ve Got Meself Locked Up In The Mad House written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood. A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected form pull her back from the brink?
Ma He Sold Me For A Few Cigarettes
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-12-02
Ma He Sold Me For A Few Cigarettes written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with Political Science categories.
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.
Ma I Ve Reached For The Moon An I M Hittin The Stars
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Ma I Ve Reached For The Moon An I M Hittin The Stars written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After 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 fled to Africa to take up missionary work. Martha never got over losing him and now, after nearly twenty years, he has made contact again. She sets off on a mission to find him and uncover his motives for getting in touch. Does he still love her? Has he left the priesthood? Is he now free to marry her? She needs to know what the future is going to hold.
Ma Jackser S Dyin Alone
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Ma Jackser S Dyin Alone written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 by Charlie, her beloved little brother, then the ma and some of her other siblings. All of them have suffered greatly and it is clear that no one connected to Jackser has escaped unscathed. But as she sits with him during his dying days, other memories of Jackser come back to Martha – fleeting moments of concern and kindness, and a sense of closeness as he recalled his own tormented past in one of Ireland’s industrial schools. It is a vicious cycle of cruelty and loss that has played out, from which only her own tenacity and wit has provided an escape. Poignant, ribald, poetic and defiant, with its resolution of many unanswered questions about her life this is Martha at her best.
Run Lily Run
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Run Lily Run written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Fiction categories.
Lilly and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, leaving them at the mercy of the Church and the authorities. This is a terrifying prospect in 1950s Dublin, where it is likely that the girls will end up in one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalen laundries – a fate they are determined to escape. When Father Flitters and the ‘Cruelty’ people arrive to take the children into care, Lilly and Ceily resist, and a riot breaks out. The girls are helped by kind Mister Mullins and his daughter Delia, but events lead to further tragedy and Lilly is left to fend for herself on the dangerous streets. Heartbroken, hungry and vulnerable, she looks like easy prey and it seems there will be no safe haven for her to find.
Ma Now I M Goin Up In The World
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2017-05-16
Ma Now I M Goin Up In The World written by Martha Long and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sixteen-year-old Martha's luck is finally changing. Taken in by a kind young priest, Father Ralph Fitzgerald, and his wealthy mother, she gets a taste of "how the other half lives" and resolves to make a better life for herself once and for all. Soon she's off to school to become a secretary: her ticket to a respectable middle-class existence. But even as her fortune improves--she has a roof over her head, food in her belly, and the freedom to do as she pleases--the love and community she has sought since she was a child continue to elude her. Her friendship with Father Ralph, the first person to make her feel truly special, may hold the key to her happiness. However, as their friendship becomes something more, Martha discovers that love can heal--but it can also hurt, deeply. In Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World, Martha navigates 1960s Ireland with her trademark compassion, optimism, and fiery strength. But will these traits be enough to see her through the greatest challenge of her life thus far?
Ma I M Gettin Meself A New Mammy
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-12-02
Ma I M Gettin Meself A New Mammy written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 escaping the abuse and neglect she suffered at home is, however, short-lived, as she soon realises that there are many forms of cruelty in this life. As she says, 'You can have a full belly, but your heart can be very empty.' Ostracised by the other children for being a 'street kid' and put to back-breaking work by the nuns, she leads a lonely existence, her only joy coming from the books she devours and her mischievous sense of humour. Desperate for love and a little place where she feels she belongs, despite all that she has suffered Martha retains her compassion for others and still continues to hope for a brighter future when she will be free to make her own way in life.
Ma I M Gettin Meself A New Mammy
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Ma I M Gettin Meself A New Mammy written by Martha Long and has been published by Mainstream Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Abused teenagers categories.
In this second volume of Martha Long's memoirs, aged 13, 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.
Ma It S A Cold Aul Night An I M Lookin For A Bed
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Author : Martha Long
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-12-02
Ma It S A Cold Aul Night An I M Lookin For A Bed written by Martha Long and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 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 leaves the convent carrying her suitcase and a burning ambition to shake off her impoverished past. Hungry to become a person who will blend in with the middle classes, Martha yearns to be accepted as someone who can be loved, respected, and one day have a home of her own where she will be safe. But this is 1960s Dublin, where poverty is rife and the Church works together with the Irish government to keep the poor and the ignorant in their place. Martha first finds work as a home help with a loving, lively family, which leads her to a job in a shop, an Italian fish and chip café, then as a skivvy in a miserable household where she is reminded of the terror Jackser brought into her life. Chance meetings with brothers and old friends from the convent lift Martha's spirits, but soon she is back on the streets searching for work and a warm bed to call her own. Martha is not often deterred when fate deals her a blow. 'Life is a bowl of cherries!' she reasons. But heartache awaits as people turn her away and predators lurk in the shadows.
Shatter Me Shatter Me
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Author : Tahereh Mafi
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Shatter Me Shatter Me written by Tahereh Mafi and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Stranger Things meets Shadow and Bone in this first instalment of an epic and romantic YA fantasy series – perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J. Maas and Victoria Aveyard. Now a TikTok phenomenon.