The following three books all involve Magdalene laundries in one way or another.
Teagan soon befriends Nora Craven, a new arrival who thought nothing could be worse than living in a squalid tenement flat. Stripped of their freedom and dignity, the girls are given new names and denied contact with the outside world. The Mother Superior, Sister Anne, who has secrets of her own, inflicts cruel, dehumanizing punishments—but always in the name of love. Finally, Nora and Teagan find an ally in the reclusive Lea, who helps them endure—and plot an escape. But as they will discover, the outside world has dangers too, especially for young women with soiled reputations.
But her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has made good on his threat to send Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan to get herself committed to save her sister. But she made a miscalculation, and with no one to believe her story, Effie’s escape from the House of Mercy seems impossible—unless she can trust an enigmatic girl named Mable. As their fates entwine, Mable and Effie must rely on each other and their tenuous friendship to survive.
Title: My Mother's Children
Author: Annette Sills
Publisher: Poolbeg Press
Genre: General Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
Release Date: 24th March 2021
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Irish
Mancunian Carmel Doherty’s life is unravelling. She has just lost her
mother Tess and brother Mikey, her marriage to Joe is coming apart at
the seams and her thirty-year friendship with Karen is on the rocks.
While
clearing out her childhood home, Carmel discovers that her mother gave
birth to a baby in an Irish Mother and Baby home when she was sixteen, a
place notorious for its mass burial of babies and illegal adoptions.
Carmel
goes on a quest for the truth about her troubled mother’s past. Her
roller-coaster journey takes her from her comfortable Manchester home to
the west of Ireland and to London's theatre land. It’s a journey that
leads her to ask: Can we ever escape our own family history or is our
destiny in our DNA?
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