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The Light In The Window

by June Goulding · 1999

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A moving account of the cruel reality of life inside a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Catholic Ireland written by a young woman who took up a position of midwife in the home run by the Sacred Heart nuns.

Subject
biographyhistory
Genre
historical fiction
Setting
Ireland
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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