改編自普立茲獎年度文學獎得主法蘭克麥寇作品《安琪拉的灰燼》
天使的孩子是片中長子以第一人稱的敘述來現出童年的成長回憶。在片中，我們卻得見一位母親／女性的堅毅：丈夫愛家但卻更愛喝酒；並在種種殘酷的現實打擊後，她在愛爾蘭艱困的環境下照顧五位年幼的孩子，此書並非著墨於革命性的女性覺醒，而是真實的呈現出女性為母的堅毅。
Limerick, 1934. It’s cold and it’s wet. Frank, his parents and three brothers have just come back from America to start a new life in Ireland. But life in Limerick is even harder than life in New York. A simplified adaptation of Frank McCourt’s moving and humorous memoirs about growing up in 1930’s Ireland. Now available with audio read by Frank McCourt!