Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The remarkable memoir of an ordinary Irish woman and her extraordinary life by Maura Murphy

Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The remarkable memoir of an ordinary Irish woman and her extraordinary life

Maura Murphy

404 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
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When seventy-year-old Maura Murphy discovered she had cancer, she left her husband of fifty years and started writing her memoirs. Born 'chronically ugly and as cross as a briar' into a poor rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura lived much of he...

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