Light in the Window

Name: Light in the Window
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ISBN: 9780091902056

ISBN-10: 0091902053

ISBN-13: 9780091902056

Edition: 2005

Authors: June Goulding

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

June Goulding worked as a midwife in a 'home' for unmarried mothers in 1951. She is the mother of seven children and lives in Cork. The Light in the Window is her first book.




No Night Duty



Leaving Seamus



First Offenders



Giving up Assumpta



Kitty's Soldier



"She comes from Waterford"



The Doctor's Delivery



Sadie's Sister



Germaine's Tony



Merry Christmas...



Sadie and Fidelis



Birth and Death



Mollie's Escape



Marie the Rebel



Sister Cyril's Dinner-gown



Julie in the Gym-Frock



Mary and Father Billy



The Letters of Freedom



Leaving with a Promise


Epilogue