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Agnes Browne, the matriarch of a Dublin family, has just suffered the shock of becoming a grandmother.
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Literature, Agnes Browne (Fictitious character), Grandmothers, Fiction, Women, Large type books, Browne, agnes (fictitious character), fiction, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, family life, Grandparents, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Dublin (ireland), fictionPlaces
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Edition Notes
Original ed. published: 1996.
"New introduction"--Cover.
"The family that inspired the hit TV series Mrs Brown's boys"--Cover.
"Sequel to: The mammy & The chisellers"--Cover.
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The New York Times Book Review praised Brendan O'Carroll's first novel, The Mammy, as "Cheerful...as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal...with a delicious dessert of an ending." With the forthcoming second book in the trilogy, The Chisellers, and a movie about The Mammy (entitled Agnes Browne) on the horizon, the world is discovering O'Carroll's uniquely Irish blend of warmth and grittiness, comedy and pathos, as he elevates the lives of ordinary working-class Dublin people--and one extraordinary family--into tales that are small in size but epic in emotion. With the final installment, The Granny, our comedic and lovable heroine, Agnes Browne, has a French lover, six children in their twenties--including one in prison--and a wee grandchild of her own. But the world is spinning fast for Agnes--especially considering that her lover wants her to become "a sexual animal" and that her family's far-flung fortune is beyond her control. The members of the Browne family...
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