by Marita Conlon-McKenna · Bantam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553812565
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«The Magdalen» is the historical novel by Marita Conlon-McKenna, published by Bantam in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In 1950s Ireland, Esther Doyle, a young woman from a fishing community in Connemara, is sent to a convent in Dublin after becoming pregnant. There she works in the Magdalen laundry while awaiting her baby and finds support among other inmates, marginalized women who help her discover her own strength.
For readers of historical fiction and Irish fiction, as well as for reading clubs interested in mid-twentieth-century Ireland.
Marita Conlon-McKenna is an Irish author of children's books and adult fiction. She is best known for her Famine-era historical children's book Under the Hawthorn Tree, the first book of the Children of the Famine trilogy, which was published in 1990 and achieved immediate success. Praised for its child-accessible yet honest depiction of the Great Famine, Under the Hawthorn Tree has been translated into over a dozen languages and is taught in classrooms worldwide. Conlon-McKenna went on to be a prolific writer and has published over 20 books for both young readers and adults. Her debut adult novel Magdalen was published in 1999.
