Title: The Magdalen
First published: June 2000
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, Unmarried mothers, Female friendship, Convents, History, Pregnant women, Friendship, fiction, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general
Places: Dublin (Ireland), Ireland, Dublin
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6053.O456 M37 2002