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

by Martha Long

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609806875
• ISBN13: 9781609806873
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"