Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 384 in Publisher: Bantam Esther Doyle is of a withyoung Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara bound by the slow rhythms of farming life in the 1950s. Her life is a the stable one. and the joy of looking after her handicapped sister Nonie. But her existence is horribly changed when she becomes pregnant and is sent to the home for fallen women in Dublin. the Magdalen Laundry ...