The Mammy
Publisher: Plume
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780452281035
First sentence: LIKE ALL GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, the interior of the public waiting room in the Department of Social Welfare was drab and uninviting.
Description: "Seven kids. One dead husband called "Redser." And not a chance that she'll be defeated. Not by Sister Magdalen, her daughter's tyrannical teacher. Not by the amorous overtures of the French proprietor of the local pizza parlour. Not by the medical crisis that threatens her best pal, Marion. Every morning at five, Agnes Browne leaves her tenement flat and sets up her produce stall on Moore Street, in the teeming heart of The Jarro - home to Dublin's dealers, dockers, draymen, and those on the dole.

But to the fatherless Browne brood, Agnes is more than a beloved neighborhood character. She's just about everything there is..."--BOOK JACKET.