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	title:	For the Love of My Mother
	author:	John Rodgers
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Headline Review
	released:	November 29, 2007
	isbn:	0755315936
	isbn-13:	9780755315932

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A Book About Love and Hope - Rated A remarkable achievement - John Rodgers imagines his way not just into a world now (thankfully) past, but into a world of women. He tells the heartrending true story of his mother, who, having been raped, falls pregnant, and, being unmarried, is sent to one of the infamous Magdalene laundries and forcibly separated from her son. The rest of her life becomes a quest to see him again. She is supported by the wonderful friends she makes in her imprisonment, and the book is not just about her story - her joys and sorrows - but their stories too: their struggles to realise the dreams that were stifled by an oppressive society - some of those struggles ending triumphantly, some tragically. It takes a look, as well, at the psychology of those running the laundry, trying to understand the mentality of those who could inflict such suffering, believing themselves to be doing what was right. This is a beautifully-written and deeply moving book - and I don't know any books like it. It is made all the more poignant by the fact that it is a tribute from a son to a wonderful mother. It is a tear-jerker, certainly, but also a wonderfully heartwarming and uplifting book - a book about hope.

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A Book About Love and Hope - Rated 5/5
A remarkable achievement - John Rodgers imagines his way not just into a world now (thankfully) past, but into a world of women. He tells the heartrending true story of his mother, who, having been raped, falls pregnant, and, being unmarried, is sent to one of the infamous Magdalene laundries and forcibly separated from her son. The rest of her life becomes a quest to see him again. She is supported by the wonderful friends she makes in her imprisonment, and the book is not just about her story - her joys and sorrows - but their stories too: their struggles to realise the dreams that were stifled by an oppressive society - some of those struggles ending triumphantly, some tragically. It takes a look, as well, at the psychology of those running the laundry, trying to understand the mentality of those who could inflict such suffering, believing themselves to be doing what was right.
This is a beautifully-written and deeply moving book - and I don't know any books like it. It is made all the more poignant by the fact that it is a tribute from a son to a wonderful mother. It is a tear-jerker, certainly, but also a wonderfully heartwarming and uplifting book - a book about hope.