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Title:Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes (Ma... #1)
Author:Martha Long
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 480 pages
Published:September 6th 2007 by Mainstream Publishing
Categories:Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Sociology. Abuse. Cultural. Ireland
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'Then I heard the most beautiful music, an suddenly I was outa me body an flyin. An I wanted te cry inside meself. I wasn't dead any more, I was lifted away, far away. I can do anythin. I can be somebody, I can be beautiful, I can be gentle, I can be rich, I can smell good. The world is waitin fer me. I can be what I want. Then it ended. An I was back in the room. I opened me eyes slowly an took in everythin aroun me. One day I'll be able te stop this. Nobody will keep me down. I'll work hard, an I'll be at the top, cos I don't want anyone lookin down on me.'

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.

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Original Title: Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
ISBN: 1845962796 (ISBN13: 9781845962791)
Edition Language: English
Series: Ma... #1
Setting: Ireland


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Ratings: 4.2 From 1949 Users | 157 Reviews

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This book was tough to get through because of the subject matter. This poor girl goes through the most terrible childhood, and I'm not sure how she was able to stay with her Mom and boyfriend all that time. I wanted to give it a higher rating but it jut dragged on and on. Horrible story after horrible story, and I almost started to become numb to them. I was dying to hear about the years after this book ended. The book was way too long and somehow still left out pertinent information. I googled

A quick read. Fairly interesting if you have an Irish background.

Martha Long retells the story of her horrific childhood in 1950's Dublin, Ireland. The title sums the story up fairly well. Martha's mother appears to have serious emotional problems and allows her husband, Martha's stepfather, to brutalize Martha and her siblings. Although the book was a hard read at times, I kept focusing on the fact that Martha wrote it first as a private journal of her life in order to "rid myself of the voice of the little girl I had once been". The voice of the girl

A very disturbing book. Makes me want to appreciate my life, country and family. And would love to give Martha's mom a big slap!



This was one of the saddest and most heartbreaking memoirs I have ever read. Martha is a young child growing up in Dublin, Ireland in the 50's. She is beaten and molested by her stepdad while her mother does nothing and just keeps popping out more babies. They also force her to steal to support the entire family which consists of the six children and the parents. Her stepdad also sells Martha to another man so he can get some cigarettes. Through it all though, we see Martha use her brains and

I stumbled across this book by accident while searching for something to read to pass the time over my Christmas holiday. I came across a book with a little girl on the cover. The girl looked maybe 5 and was obviously poor judging from the clothes she was wearing and the dirt on her face. I saw only the first part of the title "Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes." That was enough to draw me in. Without looking at another thing on the cover, I picked up the book and purchased it, along with a