Teagan and Nora find an ally in a reclusive woman named Lea, and she helps them endure and plot their escape. Sister Anne, the Mother Superior, has secrets of her own, and inflicts dehumanizing and cruel punishments but in the name of love. Stripped of all their dignity and freedom, the girls have been denied contact with the outside world and given new names. Teagan befriends Nora Craven quickly, and she is a new arrival that thought there could be nothing worse than living in some squalid tenement flat. Teagan Tiernan, age sixteen, is among them, and was sent by her family after her beauty provoked a lustful revelation from one young priest. Most are just ordinary girls whose sole sin is being too independent, too pretty, or tempting the wrong guy. Some of the inmates are “fallen” women, prostitutes, unwed moms, or petty criminals. The laundries, formerly places of refuge, have now become into some grim workhouses. Inside the gated grounds of the convent of The Sisters of the Holy Redemption lies a Magdalen Laundries. “The Magdalen Girls” is the first stand alone novel and was released in the year 2016. He writes literary fiction and historical novels. His debut novel, called “The Magdalen Girls”, was released in the year 2016. While writing his historical fiction, he keeps a three ring binder for his notes and research and he often fills it by the time the book goes to the first draft. Some of his literary influences include writers such as: Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, and Oscar Wilde, as well as any novel written by the magnificent Bronte sisters. Alexander is an ardent student of history and has a strong interest in the visual arts and music.

The traitor by vs alexander