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Ma, He Sold Me For A Few Cigarettes

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. This book tells the story of her early life.
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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, & more children follow, they live h&-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags & forced to beg for food. This book tells the story of her early life.

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