The Light In The Window - June Goulding

This book tells the story of a dozen women in Ireland in the early 1950s in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers. The stories are harrowing, especially when you realise that it wasn't that long ago, women denied medical care, forced into hard labour (whilst heavily pregnant) and beaten then looking after their child until the nuns sold the baby off (or took a donation for arranging the adoption) all the time castigating these women for the sin of having sex outside of wedlock (not always by choice) The story is told by a nurse and midwife who worked in the home and tried to make things a little better for these women, however other questions are ...  Read the complete review