Martha Marie

Broschiertes Buch

Brick by Brick

Beschreibung

It is over ten years since the manipulative Sheila Malone tolerated having all her family home in Dublin to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of her second youngest daughter. Yet a further ten years will elapse before they will be together again for another family occasion. During those years three more of her ten children marry and two of her daughters divorce their husbands. As Sheila's children mature, their lives and relationships evolve and flourish, and they cease to be afraid of their mother. On occasion, they even manipulate her. In her usual self-centred and selfish way, Sheila continues to enjoy life with her friends. When one of her friends dies, she embraces two new ones. New on the scene, Charlie dislikes her but becomes very friendly with her children, and very fond of them, as they do of him. Martha Marie takes the reader into the adult lives of ten siblings, an environment she knows well from her own childhood. She explores their relationships with humour and sympathy, and her affection for her native city, Dublin, comes through in all she writes.

Autor

The second eldest of ten children (one of whom is now a very well known Irish comedian) Martha Marie was born and went to primary school in Dublin. She immigrated to London in the late 1950s after the clothing factory where she had worked since she was fourteen closed. She is now seventy-three, a widow of nearly two years, three grown sons, two teenage grandsons, eight living siblings and a few dozen nieces and nephews; studied with The Open University and gained a BA in 1984.
As a form teacher in a multicultural state school she was responsible for teaching the personal social and health course to her pupils. Many of the discussions she had with them involved talking about different cultures and families. During lessons she was constantly pressed to talk about growing up in Ireland, and what it was like to be one of twelve living in one house. It was through telling these stories about her own life and the life of her friends also from large families that she decided to write this trilogy.
Brick by Brick is the third novel in the trilogy, The Irish Novels. Move Over is the first and Growing Up the second.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Patjac
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780957045422
• ISBN-10: 0957045425
• Artikelnr.: 43997528