num_pages: 224
description: A moving account of the cruel reality of life inside a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Catholic Ireland written by a young woman who took up a position of midwife in the home run by the Sacred Heart nuns.
language: English
title: The Light in the Window
titlecomplete: The Light in the Window
genres: Autobiography, Ireland, Historical, Irish Literature, Adult, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1660
publisher: Ebury Press