Publisher's Synopsis
Kneeling to receive Holy Communion at St Saviour's Church in Dublin one Sunday, it suddenly dawns on Magda Finnan how she can earn God's blessing. She vows to kill Father Doran. A cleaner at the St Cosmo Care Home for the Elderly, the nineteen-year-old remains haunted by her upbringing in the Magdalene orphanage. Among her memories of discipline and the ever-present fear of damnation, one image in particular defies the passage of time: her best friend, Lucy falling down the stairwell to her death. As the ghosts of the past refuse to lie quiet, a very different revelation awaits her.
