Cover of The Magdalen

Book 2000

The Magdalen

3 readers

Publisher
Soundings
Published
2000
  • Fiction
  • Social conditions
  • Unmarried mothers
  • Female friendship
  • Convents
  • History
  • Pregnant women
  • Friendship, fiction

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.