Book Reviews of Agnes Browne

A delightful, humorous story about a mother of seven coping with widowhood.

Seven kids, one dead husband, and not a chance that This Dublin woman will be defeated. An extremely satisfying read.

This is the same book as "The Mammy" it has just been retitled after the movie came out. It's not part of the continuing series as I thought. But the book is so good you can never have enough extras to pass on to friends... just don't expect it to be a different book. After reading the book I got the movie and it wasn't nearly half as good as the book! I'd also recommend reading all three books in the series each one is as great as the other! (The Mammy [Agnes Browne], The Chisellers, and The Granny) Now a fourth book which is about the "young" Agnes Browne - The Young Wan.

I really enjoyed this book with a wonderful lead character, Agness Browne, a spunky Dublin widow with seven kids who takes on an amorous owner of a pizza parlour, her daughter's witchy teacher, Sister Magdalen, and her best friends medical problems while running her produce stand. She's wonderful!
From the back of the book;
"Reads like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes on Prozac...jaunty...
charming. It's refreshing to enter O'Carroll's fun-loving
working-class Dublin world."

I highly reccomend this.

Absolutely wonderful! The characters are warm and believable. They are barely getting by, but are still able to laugh, and find richness in their lives. The author's style is direct and very readable. I think he must love this Irish life of which he writes. This book also has an alternate title: The Mammy.

Very funny. Kind of Angela's Ashes inverted: a frown-turned-upside-down. The part with the funeral is hilarious (believe it or not). Plenty of sadness and poverty here, but delivered in a lighthearted format. After reading it, you kind of want to meet Brendan Carroll; he doesn't take himself too seriously, and he obviously loves his mama.

Be aware that this is the same book as Mammy only under a different name.

I have read the series three times. I love the story. It is funny and light hearted. You will laugh one moment and cry the next. I could only wish I was as strong as Agnes. They are all both rainy day and sunny day books! I love them.