A Magdalene Rose: Can our secrets and promises ever be reconciled? - Hardcover

by Frank Brehany (Author)

Can lives lived reveal their secrets and promises when they are part of Ireland's Scaradh Magdalene? This is the remarkable true story flowing from the birth of a child, his marriage, a a wife who became the guardian of his secrets. We discover a mother, incarcerated without due process for 42 years and a father who suffered loss and isolation. Love is forbidden. A promise to find truth and justice reveals that incarceration, dogma and indifference towards a vulnerable life, leads to the stunning realisation that a mother's death is cheap, untruthful and disrespectful. Can she ever return home? Is a father still invisible? Is a wife released from a lifetime of the agony of secrecy? Has a son's promise to a father been satisfied? The stories of four lives delivers joy, tears and discovery of what it is to be human, to be Irish. It is a story of Ireland and of a Magdalene Rose and many women like her. It is the ultimate journey home.