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The Mammy has sat here on my bookshelf for almost four years. I finally picked it up and read it today.
What a crazy story! Agnes Browne and her heap of seven children. Her husband dead. Agnes never quite getting it.
A hoot!
What a crazy story! Agnes Browne and her heap of seven children. Her husband dead. Agnes never quite getting it.
A hoot!
This book was originally recommended to me by a neighbor. I loved it and read the others in the series. It is a trilogy with a prequel that was written some ten years after the original three. They are:
The Mammy
The Chisellers
The Granny
and the prequel is:
The Young Wan
I think of them as being similar to Angela's Ashes, but much much funnier. ...more
The Mammy
The Chisellers
The Granny
and the prequel is:
The Young Wan
I think of them as being similar to Angela's Ashes, but much much funnier. ...more
Jul 30, 2012
Stephanie
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