The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
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Book Reviews of The Mammy
Book Review: And It Will Be a Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
What a character Agnes Brown is. She buries her husband Redser at the outset, then sets to work to raise seven children by continuing her business of selling on produce row. The dialogue is tough and bursting with humor. This woman will not be bested, not by the cancer that kills her best friend, not by Sister Magdalene who cuts her daughter's hair, not by anyone trying to take advantage of her. I hear Angelica Huston is making it into a film. Can't wait.Book Review: A trip to Moore Street
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished The Mammy and LOVED it. I laughed and cryed as I read it. When our Moore Street fruit seller says she wants to learn how to drive before she dies, it made me stop and think and be very humble for a minute. The hardships and the laughs made them all so alive and real. The nuns here were so dark and cruel, as they often really were. This trip to Moore Street left me grateful but also with a longing for more Irish laughs in and at my life.Book Review: Transcends Irish mothering, gives new respect to "me own"
Summary: 5 Stars
Very well done, though much too brief a read (my wife and I took turns readin the book and ignoring each other for three evenings each), we need sequals and we need them now. This book is just plain funny in its approach to a range of issues not necessarily lending themselves to humor. Classic Irish, though non-Irish will relate; the topics are universal and the dialog is not contorted into a continuous brogue.
Book Review: Hysterical-poignant-charming-
Summary: 5 Stars
You get to know Agnes Browne right away and she and all the other characters become real in no time at all. I laughed with the Browne family and cried with Agnes. Loved the strong sense of family and the humor.I had a best friend like Marion and have fought like a lioness for my children, too. I read on the back cover this is part of a trilogy--I'm heading for the bookstore to get more about Agnes etal.Book Review: The Mammy will have you laughing along with the spunky Browne Family, whose deadpan humor navigates them through their poverty.
Summary: 5 Stars
Brendan O'Carroll's The Mammy will have you laughing along with the spunky Browne Family, whose deadpan humor navigates them through their poverty. This light hearted if not at times tragic novel will have reader laughing, crying and marveling at the strength of friendship and family. This is the first novel in O'Carroll's Agnes Browne Books.
Highly Recommended for a light Read.