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For fans of Roddy Doyle and Marian Keyes, a heartwarming and funny debut of an Irish family, the Augustts, all bound together with love and language. There’s a son who doesn’t speak, a mother who has a stroke, a granny who talks enough for all of them and a daughter who is writing it all down.
‘M for Magnificent! Heart-breaking, heart-warming, and hilarious . . . a glorious debut’ Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things
‘Rambunctious’ Irish Times
Meet the Augustts: a loving, Irish family who, like all families, are a bit complicated.
They are bound together by their love for each other, but each expresses themselves in a very different way. When misfortune strikes the family, they must learn to understand each other anew. Sometimes, in a family as complicated as the Augustts, it’s not always what is spoken that makes the most sense.
Everything is shaken up when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. A force of nature, full of stern words and no-nonsense common sense, it is she who must try and hold the family together.
M for Mammy is an uplifting story about the unique comfort of home, the language we can find when the words aren’t there, and the power of a family to heal itself.
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