books.google.co.nz - "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."...http://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Angela_s_Ashes.html?id=hG4-QGmD_84C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAngela's Ashes