When little Maureen Sullivan was just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be the one who would face harrowing punishment. Within 24 hours, Maureen was taken from her home and her beloved grandmother and sent to the Magdalene Laundry in New Ross, County Wexford, run by the Order of the Good Shepherd nuns. This memoir is by one of the youngest-known survivors of Ireland’ s infamous Magdalene laundries.