The Magdalen girls
By: V.S. ALexander
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781496706126
Subjects: Girls; Reformatories for women; Bildungsromans; Institutional care; Fiction; Runaway women; Clergy; Female friendship; Workhouses; Sexual behavior
Description: When her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest, sixteen-year-old Teagan is sent to one of Dublin's Magdalen Laundries for fallen women, where she befriends two other girls who help her endure the harsh captivity.