TY  - BOOK
AU  - Long,Martha
TI  - Ma, I'm getting meself a new mammy: the heartbreaking true story of a little girl who just wanted to be loved
SN  - 9781845964047
U1  - 920 LON 
PY  - 2008///
PB  - Mainstream
KW  - Long
KW  - Poor teenagers
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Dublin
KW  - Biography
KW  - Abused teenagers
KW  - Catholic schools
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Dublin (Ireland)
KW  - Social conditions
N2  - Aged 13, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that she is to get an education. However, with the nuns she endures a lonely existance
ER  -