The Magdalen
By: Marita Conlon-McKenna.
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Unmarried mothers -- Fiction.; Female friendship -- Fiction.; Pregnant women -- Fiction.; Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Betrayed by her lover and rejected by her family, a pregnant Esther Doyle is sent to join the fallen women of Dublin's Holy Saints Convent, where she spends her time working in the Magdalen laundry while awaiting the birth of her baby.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."