Where's Your Mama Gone? by Kay O'gorman
It would have been easy to say that she just continued the cycle of her own neglect and abandonment, but Kay thought that too easy an excuse. It would be easy to place the blame on her own traumatic childhood, on the early death of her mother, on her domineering but charismatic father. To escape this background, she married early but, like many such marriages, it was not a happy union. She hoped that children would change things, but they did not. Her circumstances grew ever more desperate. Kay fled. She formed a new relationship, but her sense of guilt at having abandoned her children oppressed her to the point that she herself developed problems with alcohol. It took a long time, but finally she sorted out her life. In Where’s Your Mama Gone? she writes with unflinching truth about her past and the motivations for her actions. It recalls an Ireland of casual cruelty, all-powerful authority figures, sexual ignorance and non-existent choice.Kay O’Gorman was born in Hugginstown in County Kilkenny in 1944. She was educated at the Convent of Mercy School in Thomastown. She now lives in Islington in north London with her partner. This is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780717140992 |
| ISBN 10 | 0717140997 |
| Title | Where's Your Mama Gone? |
| Author | Kay O'gorman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gill |
| Year published | 2008-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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