The Magdalen
By: Marita Conlon-McKenna
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780750517331
Subjects: Unmarried mothers; Fiction; History; Social conditions
Description: It's 1950 and Esther Doyle has become pregnant. Betrayed by her lover and rejected by her family, she is sent to join the "fallen women" of the Holy Rosary Convent in Dublin, where she has to work in the infamous Magdalen laundry while she awaits the birth of her baby.
Notes: Originally published: London: Bantam, 1999.