Worthless

by Marilyn Hardy (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $5.80

  In this honest and moving memoir, Marilyn Hardy recounts the trials and tribulations of her life: an impoverished childhood in a northern mining town; the difficult relationship with her undemonstrative mother and her beloved father's death. In adulthood, she was married to a violent man and struggled to bring up her three children alone with her own serious health problems. Latterly, she has found true happiness with her third husband, Richard, and the joy that her eleven grandchildren bring her. Marilyn writes with grace and candour, and with such closely observed descriptions of times past that the reader feels transported to another era.

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  Paperback
  2008

  $4.02

  The former mining town of Stanley lies only twenty minutes drive from the beautiful cathedral city of Durham. Yet the two are worlds apart. Marilyn Hardy recounts in touching detail the trials of growing up in this impoverished mining town and her life-long struggle to find happiness, from her troubled relationship with her undemonstrative mother, an early suicide attempt and the death of her much-loved father to her violent relationship with her second husband and her long-term struggles with serious health problems. Her journey from troubled childhood and early adulthood to her current happy marriage and eleven grandchildren is shared with candour and grace in this heartfelt memoir.