The Laundry Girl (Paperback)

Set in Perth, Western Australia, during the closing stages of World War II, The Laundry Girl, tells of a girl who was abandoned by her mother because she was seemingly considered to have interfered with her often-questionable lifestyle. The story of a ten year-old child, given up by her mother to a Catholic home for wayward women and about-to-be unmarried mothers. But there is a marked difference between schoolgirl Faye and the other wards.