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000717978 1001_ $$aConlon-McKenna, Marita.
000717978 24514 $$aThe Magdalen /$$cMarita Conlon-McKenna.
000717978 250__ $$a1st U.S. mass market ed.
000717978 260__ $$aNew York :$$bTor,$$c2009, c1999.
000717978 300__ $$a348 p. ;$$c17 cm.
000717978 500__ $$a"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
000717978 500__ $$a"This book was originally published by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, Ltd., in the United Kingdom."--T.p. verso.
000717978 520__ $$a"A simple girl with a true heart, Esther Doyle is a true child of Connemara, the rugged West Country of Ireland. Esther's world is shattered when she is abandoned by her lover. Unmarried and pregnant, a source of shame for her family, she is sent to the Holy Saints Convent in Dublin. There, trapped behind high granite walls, she works the infamous Magdalen laundry and waits for the birth of the baby. At the mercy of the nuns, Esther works mostly in silence alongside the other "Maggies". It is a grim place, but Esther soon finds friendship and begins to realize that she has more choices than she ever dreamed of and has a strength that few suspect ..."--P. [4] of cover.
000717978 650_0 $$aConvents$$vFiction.
000717978 650_0 $$aUnmarried mothers$$vFiction.
000717978 650_0 $$aFemale friendship$$vFiction.
000717978 650_0 $$aPregnant women$$vFiction.
000717978 651_0 $$aDublin (Ireland)$$vFiction.
000717978 655_7 $$aPsychological fiction.$$2lcgft
000717978 655_7 $$aHistorical fiction.$$2lcgft
000717978 85280 $$bpopro$$hConlon-Mckenna
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