Once I Was A Princess (Jacqueline Pascarl)

Once I Was A Princess

Jacqueline Pascarl

Blurb: Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation - and then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, betrayal and abuse? What would you do if you managed to escape your life of torment - and then your children were kidnapped by their own father? This is what happened to Jacqueline Pascarl.

In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline recounts her part in this controversial, headline-grabing international drama with heart-rending honesty.

ISBN: 9781840182774 (Paperback)

Year: 1999

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing

Pages: 462 (Non-Fiction)

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Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes (Martha Long)

Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes

Martha Long

Blurb: Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.

As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems things can't get any worse, her mother meets Jackser.

Despite her trials, Martha is a child with an irrepressible spirit and a wit beyond her years. She tells the story of her early life without an ounce of self-pity and manages to recreate a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.

Martha never stops believing she is worth more than the hand she has been dealt, and her remarkable voice will remain with you long after you've finished the last line.

ISBN: 9781845965433 (Paperback)

Year: 2007

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing

Pages: 479 (Non-Fiction)

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