The Magdalen

Cover for 'The Magdalen'

About this book

Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms of farming life and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie. But her existence is horribly changed when she becomes pregnant and is sent to the home for fallen women in Dublin, the Magdalen Laundry...

Publishers

  • Original publisher English: Bantam Press

About the author & agent

Other titles by Marita Conlon McKenna