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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...
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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 she spent her early adolescence.
In the latest chapter of Martha Long's autobiographical series, Martha is for the first time on her own: discharged from the convent, she's finally 16, the age she'd long dreamed of as the doorway to her freedom from the whims of cruel...
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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 stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Her days in the convent are steady, predictable, safe-everything that her life had not been prior to being sent away. But as she says, "You can have a full belly, but your heart...
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