Brought to you by Penguin.The very first autobiography from Brendan O''Carroll.Before he became the nation''s favourite Mammy, Brendan O''Carroll was known, simply as Brendan. He''s the youngest of eleven children from a poor family in Dublin, he''s a boy whose father died when he was just nine years old; he''s someone whose hope and determination meant he never gave up. Throughout the tough moments, Brendan always had humour and a good story to tell alongside the ever-guiding inspiration of his own Mammy, a formidable figure who became Ireland''s first female Labour MP, all whilst raising eleven children by herself.Just like the show so brilliantly expresses, Brendan''s first autobiography, the real story behind the man who became Mrs Brown, combines uplifting heart, warmth and hilarity.© Brendan O''Carroll 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Brendan O'Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s.  Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock-and-roll invades Dublin.

But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip—will Agnes be turned away at the altar?  For the whole parish knows Agnes's not-so-well-kept secret.  And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it's up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own. 

Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

Brendan O''Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s.  Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock-and-roll invades Dublin.

But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip—will Agnes be turned away at the altar?  For the whole parish knows Agnes''s not-so-well-kept secret.  And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it''s up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own. 

Filled with O''Carroll''s trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

Brought to you by Penguin.The very first autobiography from Brendan O''Carroll.Before he became the nation''s favourite Mammy, Brendan O''Carroll was known, simply as Brendan. He''s the youngest of eleven children from a poor family in Dublin, he''s a boy whose father died when he was just nine years old; he''s someone whose hope and determination meant he never gave up. Throughout the tough moments, Brendan always had humour and a good story to tell alongside the ever-guiding inspiration of his own Mammy, a formidable figure who became Ireland''s first female Labour MP, all whilst raising eleven children by herself.Just like the show so brilliantly expresses, Brendan''s first autobiography, the real story behind the man who became Mrs Brown, combines uplifting heart, warmth and hilarity.© Brendan O''Carroll 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Brendan O'Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s.  Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock-and-roll invades Dublin.

But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip—will Agnes be turned away at the altar?  For the whole parish knows Agnes's not-so-well-kept secret.  And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it's up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own. 

Filled with O'Carroll's trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.

Brendan O''Carroll takes readers back to the heart of working-class Dublin, this time in the 1940s.  Together with her soon to be lifelong best friend Marion Delany, young Agnes manages to survive the indignities and demands of Catholic school, the unwanted births of siblings, days spent in the factories and markets, and nights in the dance hall as rock-and-roll invades Dublin.

But on the eve of her wedding night, the Jarro is alive with gossip—will Agnes be turned away at the altar?  For the whole parish knows Agnes''s not-so-well-kept secret.  And with a mother falling further into dementia, and a younger sister turning to a life of crime, it''s up to Agnes alone to keep her splintering family together, while trying to create one of her own. 

Filled with O''Carroll''s trademark wicked wit and loving, larger-than-life characters, The Young Wan shows the hardscrabble beginnings of the ultimate Irish mother and family.