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Martha Long
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Pages: 480 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1845962796
Pub: Mainstream Publishing
Pub date: 2007-09-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4034
Reader Reviews:
Truely inspirational (1/1 people found this helpful)
This is the best book I have read in many years. It touched my heart so very much. I could not put the book down. Every page is gripping. When you read a book like this and to find that the author has succefully come out the other side and has gone on to successfully raise three children, it makes you realise there is hope in the world.
PLEASE MARTHA LONG, write another book. We must hve a continuation
Couldn't Put it Down! (0/0 people found this helpful)
An excellent read - very upsetting but also inspiring - Martha's tale is extroadinarily evocative of a time and place....and her wit and courage is truly humbling. Like others have said, I would love to know what happens later on - lets have a sequal soon!
Heart stopping, heart sinking and full of hope. (0/0 people found this helpful)
So many of these memoirs that I have read border on an almost tedious predictability. However poor Martha's wretched start in life is so frightening and yet filled with humour that leaves you laughing and crying at the same time.
Her mother's frustratingly constant weakness is juxtaposed with Martha's strength leaving me with the notion that both mother and menacing step-father were 'touched in the head' and that the whole family would possibly have starved to death if it hadn't been for Martha's 'shopping trips'!
I spent time in the Regina Coeli when I was ten in the late 70s, and thankfully that particular 'institution/charity' had moved on a wee bit since Martha's childhood, however I could still very easily relate to her flowing descriptions of the shame felt in the eye's of Irelands Catholic instutional disgust of poverty and yet she doesn't dwell here, but goes to pains to point out the kidness shown by those few in positions to help.
A brilliant refreshing way to look and laugh at misery, thanks Martha.
HEARTBREAKING (0/0 people found this helpful)
THE BEST BOOK I HAVE READ I FELT ALL THE PAIN AND TERROR THAT SHE WAS FEELING AT THE HANDS OFF THAT EVIL MAN AND HER MOTHER WHO TO ME WAS JUST HAS BAD I JUST CRIED WITH HER ,BUT COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN YOU FELT LIKE YOU WERE THERE WITH HER .SHE IS A GREAT WRITER TO MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE THIS HOW THE CHILDREN SURVIVED IS A MIRACLE .I DO HOPE THERE IS A FOLLOW UP I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW CHARLIE SURVIVED BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN HER PLACE
excellent ,well written (0/0 people found this helpful)
i have read alot of books over the years ,this is the best by far.the way it is written, the insight you get into this little girls mind takes you there with her.in some parts unbearable to read.it must have been hard to relive this part of her life.hope there is another book i want to know what happens next....
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