Bad Girl Magdalene - Jonathan Gash

In recent years, there has been a lot in the news about the abuse suffered by children in the care of the church, particularly the Catholic Church. After years of such abuse, many parts of the church have since offered apologies and reparation. Something like this isn't necessarily the kind of thing you would expect to see as the basis for a novel, but that is the background against which Jonathan Gash's "Bad Girl Magdalene" is set. Magda Finnan is a child of The Magdalenes, an orphanage run by nuns. Having reached the age at which she can leave, she has a job as a domestic at the St Cosmo Old People's Home, also run by a group of nuns and a ...  Read the complete review