Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan

Republic of Shame by Caelainn HoganUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of 'fallen women'. In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude. And in the mother and baby homes, women who had become pregnant out of wedlock were hidden from view, and in most cases their babies were adopted sometimes illegally.

Spare and lucid

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale

a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer

and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a mother who never seemed to care for her

Anne Boleyn is dead

we will cease to feel so alone and so cursed

Jay to Jackdaw

A gorgeous

this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling

present and future

playing on his Xbox

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family