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Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes : a heart-rending memoir that will both horrify and inspire

Long, Martha2007
Books, Manuscripts
Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s' 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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