For the love of my mother - J. P. Rodgers

Bridie Rodgers was just two years old when she was arrested for begging on the streets of Dublin. She was to spend the next thirty years of her life locked away in different institutions. The orphanage came first, then at sixteen she was raped, fell pregnant and was sent to a home for unmarried mothers where she found happiness in her perfect son. Bridie's child was taken away from her and she was sent to one of Ireland's infamous Magdalene laundries, but she refused to give up hope of being reunited with her son - even when he didn't want to be found.