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Product details
EAN
9780091902056
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Biography
Publisher
Ebury Press
Title
The Light in the Window
Author
June Goulding
ISBN
0091902053
Manufacturer's product description
I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise. In Ireland 1951 the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years. It was a place of secrets lies and cruelty. A place where women picked grass by hand and tarred roads whilst heavily pregnant. Where they were denied any contact with the outside world; denied basic medical treatment and abused for their 'sins'; where after the birth they were forced into hard labour in the convent for three years. But worst of all was that the young women were expected to raise their babies during these three years so that they could then be sold - given up for adoption in exchange for a donation to the nuns. Shocked by the nuns' inhumane treatment of the frightened young women June risked her job to bring some light into their dark lives. June's memoir tells the story of twelve women's experiences in this home and of the hardships they endured but also the kindness she offered them and the hope she was able to bring.I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.
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