The extraordinary memoir of an Irish matriarch - the Angela of ANGELA'S ASHES In a fearless and honest memoir, an ordinary Irish woman recounts an extraordinary life. Born 'chronically ugly and cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura Murphy left school and 14 and arrived in Dublin where she worked in service until she married. Later, poverty-stricken and with five young children, the family left Ireland for Birmingham of the 1950s, where they hoped to find a better life. At 75 years old, recovering from cancer and having left her marriage of 50 years, Maura Murphy told her story, from her early days running wild in the Irish countryside, to her destructive marriage to a hard-working, hard-drinking womaniser, the birth of her nine children, and a life-or-death choice what would change her forever.

I have offered this book on the chanceXchange website and it has been taken up. It will be off to the new owner soon and it may end its journey there or it may travel on. We shall see............

I didn't get on with this book, sadly.

It is an extraordinary story, full of history and struggle and -

It reminds me too much of my own mother!




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Edit to add:

I relisted this on chanceXchange and it's already been requested. Hopefully, the new 'owner' will have more joy with it!