Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1960s

by Martha Long

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609808452
• ISBN13: 9781609808457
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"