Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy

By Martha Long

After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfa...

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes

By Martha Long

"Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl's unbreakable spirit."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewWhen Martha Long's feckle...

Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed

By Martha Long

The next installment of the Ma books—all bestsellers in Ireland and the UK—brings readers on the journey of Martha's first months of freedom in Dublin after leaving the convent where sh...

Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy

By Martha Long

After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfa...

Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed

By Martha Long

The next installment of the Ma books—all bestsellers in Ireland and the UK—brings readers on the journey of Martha's first months of freedom in Dublin after leaving the convent where sh...

Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World

By Martha Long

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...

Ma Jackser s Dyin Alone Book 7 Martha Long

By Martha Long

I step in through the heavy doors of the old city hospital and plunge back in time. Jaysus, the sounds, smells, peeling paint! Nothing's changed here since I first used this place as a homeless six...

Ma I ve Got Meself Locked up in the Mad House

By Martha Long

Ma It s a Cold Aul Night an I m Lookin for a Bed

By Martha Long

Run Lily run

By Martha Long

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 Du...