Beginning in 1926, The Convent Girl follows Maisie O’Sullivan from age four to her early forties. Brought up in a Catholic convent in Cobh, Ireland from two years old, Maisie has been told that both her parents are dead. Remembering no other life, she has adapted to the regulated life of the convent and, like … Continue reading Book Review – The Convent Girl by Tania Crosse
Ireland 20th century
Book Review – The House Children by Heidi Daniele
My birth was a sin and a crime. I was born in the Tuam Mother Baby Home to an inmate serving a year of penal servitude, her crime an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. The House Children begins when Mary Margaret Joyce is six years old and living with the Cleary family who she has been fostered to. … Continue reading Book Review – The House Children by Heidi Daniele
Catherine Meyrick 