Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House

Regular price €18.50
A01=Martha Long
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Martha Long
autobiography
automatic-update
ben elton
ben goldacre
biographies
biographies and autobiographies
biography
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGA
Category=BM
Category=DNBA
Category=JKS
Category=MBPK
compassionomics
COP=United Kingdom
counselling
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
diary of a
eleanor of aquitaine books
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
fergal keane
grief journal
health
how not to die cookbook
in the garden
ireland
irish
Language_English
lisa harding
memoir
mental health
michael harding books
occupational therapy
PA=Available
penelope lively
peter hook
Price_€10 to €20
proof of heaven
PS=Active
psychiatry
reclaiming sanity
softlaunch
the galway homicides
the hospital
the house
the redhead
the suicide killer
the suicide pact
tim spector
virgin suicides

Product details

  • ISBN 9781780575414
  • Weight: 309g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Apr 2012
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on.

As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood.

A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected form pull her back from the brink?

Martha Long was born in Dublin in the early 1950s and still lives there today. She has written seven critically acclaimed volumes of autobiography, including the bestselling Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes. Run, Lily, Run is her fiction debut.