The Magdalen

Marita Conlon-McKenna author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published:4th Jul '13

Should be back in stock very soon

The Magdalen cover

Reissue of the Irish Number 1 bestseller.

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.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...

This book pulls no punches...Marita Conlon-McKenna is breaking new ground with The Magdalen * Image Magazine *

ISBN: 9780857502414

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 23mm

Weight: 262g

384 pages