Frank McCourt (1930-2009) is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling Angela’s Ashes. It has sold two million copies in the UK and tens of millions worldwide. He followed this with the best-selling 'Tis and the final in the trilogy, Teacher Man, was published in 2005. For thirty years he taught in NYC schools, before, in his 60s, settling down to write his story.

‘’Angela's Ashes’ out Roddy Doyles Roddy Doyle. I was amazed by it.’ Margaret Forster, author of ‘Hidden Lives’‘Once opened, this brilliant and seductive book will not let you rest until Frank emerges, more or less reared, at the close of boyhood.’ Thomas Keneally, author of ‘Schindler's List.’‘Frank McCourt's lyrical Irish voice will draw comparison to Joyce. It's that seductive, that hilarious. In the annals of memoir, his name will be writ large.’ Mary Karr, author of ‘The Liar's Club’.‘I was moved and dazzled by the sombre and lively beauty of this book; it is a story of survival and growth beyond all odds; a chronicle of surprising triumphs, written in language that is always itself triumphant.’ Mary Gordon, author of ‘The Shadow Man.’

Frank McCourt (1930-2009) is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling Angela’s Ashes. It has sold two million copies in the UK and tens of millions worldwide. He followed this with the best-selling 'Tis and the final in the trilogy, Teacher Man, was published in 2005. For thirty years he taught in NYC schools, before, in his 60s, settling down to write his story.

‘’Angela's Ashes’ out Roddy Doyles Roddy Doyle. I was amazed by it.’ Margaret Forster, author of ‘Hidden Lives’‘Once opened, this brilliant and seductive book will not let you rest until Frank emerges, more or less reared, at the close of boyhood.’ Thomas Keneally, author of ‘Schindler's List.’‘Frank McCourt's lyrical Irish voice will draw comparison to Joyce. It's that seductive, that hilarious. In the annals of memoir, his name will be writ large.’ Mary Karr, author of ‘The Liar's Club’.‘I was moved and dazzled by the sombre and lively beauty of this book; it is a story of survival and growth beyond all odds; a chronicle of surprising triumphs, written in language that is always itself triumphant.’ Mary Gordon, author of ‘The Shadow Man.’

Frank McCourt (1930-2009) is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling Angela’s Ashes. It has sold two million copies in the UK and tens of millions worldwide. He followed this with the best-selling 'Tis and the final in the trilogy, Teacher Man, was published in 2005. For thirty years he taught in NYC schools, before, in his 60s, settling down to write his story.

‘’Angela's Ashes’ out Roddy Doyles Roddy Doyle. I was amazed by it.’ Margaret Forster, author of ‘Hidden Lives’‘Once opened, this brilliant and seductive book will not let you rest until Frank emerges, more or less reared, at the close of boyhood.’ Thomas Keneally, author of ‘Schindler's List.’‘Frank McCourt's lyrical Irish voice will draw comparison to Joyce. It's that seductive, that hilarious. In the annals of memoir, his name will be writ large.’ Mary Karr, author of ‘The Liar's Club’.‘I was moved and dazzled by the sombre and lively beauty of this book; it is a story of survival and growth beyond all odds; a chronicle of surprising triumphs, written in language that is always itself triumphant.’ Mary Gordon, author of ‘The Shadow Man.’