Lily and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, lea...

Originally published: Great Britain: Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh, c2009.

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The h...

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached r...

'Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to o...

'The next moving volume of the autobiographical Ma series--all bestsellers in the UK and Ireland-...

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser,...

Sequel to: Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes.

On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that ...

Martha Long was born in Dublin in the early 1950s and still lives there today. She has written se...

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from ...

'First Published in Great Britain in 20089 by Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh.'--Title p...