Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes

A heartrending memoir of a deprived childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dublin, that will both horrify and inspire. Born to a teenage mother, Martha Long had to be a fighter from the very start. Her mother moved from man to man, and more children followed, living hand to mouth in squalid and freezing tenements. Then her mother met Jackster, and things got