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Title: Prisoner of the State
Author: Lily Arthur
Narrator: Ella James
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 04-24-25
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
At sixteen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between the women's liberation movement of the ‘swinging sixties and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in the notorious Holy Cross Home for ‘wayward' girls in Wooloowin, Brisbane as a ‘prisoner' of the state. Lily spent her entire pregnancy performing unpaid labour its infamous Magdalene Laundry.
