I WILL BE GOOD TPB by Peig McManus
Meet Peig McManus, an unforgettable Dublin character whose life story will make youlaugh and cry.Her memoir of a 1940s' Dublin childhood is recounted with remarkable candour and wit,as she describes her early years in the last of the city's tenements, under the shadow ofthe Second World War.As her family and community faced many challenges, they managed to laugh and singeven in the midst of great sorrow, before their way of life was shattered when the slumswere cleared to make way for a new life for the people of the inner city.Peig learned early about class distinction, chastity and shame, and fought against socialprejudice to become one of Ireland's foremost campaigners for educational reform. But aquiet sorrow lay at the heart of her story, one which could not be hidden forever.Now, in her eighties, Peig McManus recounts her journey to becoming herself, and hermany falls from grace along the way. The story of an irrepressible nature and thetriumphs of a girl who couldn't do what she was told, however hard she tried.
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