Kitchen Privileges

Memoirs of a Bronx Girlhood

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Mary Higgins Clark

Angela’s Ashes comes home to the Bronx in Mary Higgins Clark’s brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet memoir of a childhood during the Depression.

Mary Higgins Clark’s memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the house—the Higgins Bar and Grill in the Bronx is failing and in debt, and worry about it is one of the things that has killed her father—Mary’s indomitable Irish mother (she devotes a chapter to her “Wild Irish Mother”) puts out a classified ad: “Furnished rooms! Kitchen Privileges!” Very shortly there arrives the first in a succession of tenants who will change the lives of the Higgins family and set the young Mary on her start as a writer, while bringing to them all a dose of the Christmas spirit that seemed to have vanished with Mr. Higgins’s death.

Full of hope, faith, memorable characters, and warmth, Kitchen Privileges brings back into sharp, nostalgic focus the feeling of growing up poor, but determined to survive, in a vanished Bronx that was one of white lace curtains instead of a slum, and at a time when everybody was poor and either needed or offered a helping hand.©2002 Mary Higgins Clark; (P)2002 Simon & Schuster, Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc.

Love this her

I have been a huge fan of MHC’s stories for years. This autobiography gave great insight into trials and triumphs.

A splendid biography.

A sure delight on a long drive to Michigan from GEORGIA. Sublimely read with sincere emohasis.

A Heart Warming Memoir - Five Stars!

I enjoyed Mary’s memoir very much! Not only did she grab my heartstrings of the days gone by and of her life as a girl of the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, and beyond; hearing her tell of those days in her own voice was an emotional experienced or me. Her tone and endearing NY accent is the voice of my own mother, now deceased. Her memoir was a treat to listen to as it gave me an earful of stories I no longer get to hear since my mother is gone.
Rest In Peace Mary! I’m sure you and my mother love the sweet “air” of heaven better than the air in the Bronx! Be blessed!
Donna Masotto

A great read

I’ve always been Hey Mary Higgins Clark fan and I have read all of her novels. I hadn’t read this one yet, and with her recent passing I decided to give it a try and I enjoyed it so much. Mary never disappoints!

I’ve read and re-read your books

Mary my dear....thank you for using your God given talent to writing ....and you’ve kept your books clean and not gruesome. I truly have read and re-read them through many years. My next re-read for the third time is Mount Vernon Love Story. Blessings
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